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On September 17, 1976, the first space shuttle rolled out of the Palmdale, California factory. It was the Enterprise, which was used for testing but never flew to space. The other Enterprise crew attended the unveiling of the mighty spacecraft. From Gizmodo:

Clearly, the coolest one is Dr McCoy. He is so into it, with his awesome suit and turtleneck and black notebook. Nimoy looks like a teen "smiling like he just cherrybombed the principal's office toilet", according to Mark Wilson. Sulu looks happily into the horizon, like Scotty. Uhura looks tiny and smiley, and Roddenberry... well, Roddenberry just looks to infinity and beyond, as he used to. The only one who looks out of character is Chekov. He's just there, all grumbly.

The Enterprise is now at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. It will be replaced by Discovery soon.

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