This Week in NASA History: First American-built International Space Station Module Launches -- Dec. 15, 1998

This Week in NASA History: First American-built International Space Station Module Launches -- Dec. 15, 1998: Space shuttle Enterprise made its first appearance mated to supportive propellant containers/boosters cluster, as it was rolled from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center en route to the launch pad, some 3.5 miles away, on May 1, 1979. Enterprise underwent several weeks of fit and function checks on the pad in preparation for STS-1.