Official NASA news film from 1976 about the first public rollout ceremony of the space shuttle prototype, named Enterprise after the ship from “Star Trek”. You can very briefly see cast members Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley attending the ceremony at timestamp 04:12. You can also briefly see Fred Haise (one of the astronauts from Apollo 13) at 02:15 as he piloted the atmospheric flight testing on the shuttle prototype.

The film gives background on the whole shuttle programme, including future plans and its hopes of reducing the cost of sending things into space. Unfortunately, in retrospect the shuttle’s increased complexity compared to a classic rocket meant its goal of cheap space access was never actually realised. Safety problems including the destruction of Challenger and Columbia sealed its fate, and NASA returned to using conventional capsules on rockets for future human spaceflight missions.

The Enterprise never flew in space, but was used to make sure everything else was working by being taken into the air on a Boeing 747, detaching and then gliding to a runway. The original plan for Enterprise was to convert it into a full space-going shuttle, but changes to the shuttle design meant it was easier to just build a new one. The Enterprise is currently on display in a museum in New York.

This video was created by NASA and is in the public domain.