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Boy on horseback watching the Space Shuttle Enterprise being towed across Antelope Valley, Calif., 1977

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Title: Boy on horseback watching the Space Shuttle Enterprise being towed across Antelope Valley, Calif., 1977
Contributor: Rogers, Art
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1, 1977
1977-02-01
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: OLD MEETS NEW--Horse and rider confront space shuttle orbiter in Antelope Valley today as craft was towed 36 miles across desert from Rockwell International facility in Palmdale to a dry lake test facility for a year of flight trials. Townspeople lined the route for a glimpse of the 110-ton spacecraft, which was mounted on a 90-wheel transporter and accompanied by a 20-vehicle convoy.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b830_284846-1
ark:/21198/zz0002r2rc
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Youth
Space vehicles--Design and construction
Science
Lifestyle
Space shuttles--Design and construction
Horsemen and horsewomen--California, Southern
Enterprise (Spacecraft)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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