Wind tunnel

This is not the Enterprise itself going through some strange time-space barrier. Rather, it's a model of the shuttle seen in a 1975 wind tunnel test meant to simulate ionized gases around the spacecraft during re-entry.

April 11, 2010 6:00 AM PDT

Photo by: NASA

| Caption by: Jonathan Skillings

 

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