Editing Space Shuttle Enterprise (section)

===Fit checks===
[[File:Enterprise KSC 1979.jpg|thumb|upright|''Enterprise'' visited Kennedy Space Center LC-39A in launch configuration 20 months before the first Shuttle launch.<ref name="image">{{cite web |url=http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1979/captions/KSC-79PC-0274.html |title=Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise on Launch Complex 39 |work=NASA.gov |date=June 1, 1979 |access-date=January 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124130246/http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1979/captions/KSC-79PC-0274.html |archive-date=November 24, 2007}}</ref>]]

Following the MGVT program and with the decision to not use ''Enterprise'' for orbital missions, it was ferried to [[Kennedy Space Center]] on April 10, 1979. By June 1979, it was mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters (known as a [[Boilerplate (spaceflight)|boilerplate]] configuration) and tested in a launch configuration at [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39|KSC Launch Complex 39A]] for a series of fit checks of the facilities there.<ref name="name" />

After this period, ''Enterprise'' was returned to NASA's [[Dryden Flight Research Facility]] in September 1981.<ref name="ksc-pao-ent">{{cite web |url=http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html |title=Enterprise (OV-101) |work=NASA.gov |date=October 3, 2000 |access-date=November 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515233902/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html |archive-date=May 15, 2012}}</ref>  In 1983 and 1984, ''Enterprise'' underwent an international tour visiting [[France]], [[West Germany]], [[Italy]], the [[United Kingdom]], and [[Canada]]. ''Enterprise'' also visited [[California]], [[Alabama]], and [[Louisiana]] (while visiting the [[1984 Louisiana World Exposition]]). 

[[File:Space_Shuttle_Enterprise_in_launch_configuration.jpg|upright|thumb|''Enterprise'' visited Vandenberg SLC-6 in launch configuration 17 months before [[STS-62-A|the first West Coast Shuttle launch]] was scheduled]]
Between November 1984 and May 1985, ''Enterprise'' was again mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters in a boilerplate configuration for a series of fit checks of the [[Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 6|never-used shuttle facilities]] at [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]] in California.<ref>{{cite web |date=May 1, 2019 |title=40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Enterprise rolls to the Pad |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/40-years-ago-space-shuttle-enterprise-rolls-to-the-pad |access-date=September 26, 2022 |work=NASA.gov}}</ref><ref name="lompoc20050929">{{cite news |last=Scully |first=Janene |date=September 29, 2005 |title=New era dawns for SLC-6 |url=http://lompocrecord.com/news/local/new-era-dawns-for-slc/article_bd0a0f6c-85c7-5d57-b11a-83523377aca9.html |access-date=June 8, 2017 |work=[[Lompoc Record]]}}</ref><ref name="telegramtribune19851016">{{cite news |last1=Fulks |first1=Tom |date=October 16, 1985 |title=Vandeberg opens new space shuttle base |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tribune-vandeberg-opens-new-space-sh/122247704/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404064312/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tribune-vandeberg-opens-new-space-sh/122247704/ |archive-date=April 4, 2023 |access-date=April 4, 2023 |work=[[The Tribune (San Luis Obispo)|The County-Telegram Tribune]] |location=[[San Luis Obispo, California]] |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

On November 18, 1985, ''Enterprise'' was ferried to Washington, D.C., where it became property of the [[Smithsonian Institution]] and was stored in the [[National Air and Space Museum]]'s hangar at [[Washington Dulles International Airport|Dulles International Airport]].