This Week in NASA History: Space Shuttle Program’s First Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Test Performed at Marshall -- Oct. 4, 1978

This Week in NASA History: Space Shuttle Program’s First Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Test Performed at Marshall -- Oct. 4, 1978: 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.