In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, Richard H. Truly and Joe Engle, the crew of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

Space Shuttle Endeavour will be hoisted into the air and delicately placed into upright launch-ready position at the California Science Center's new 200,000-square-foot Samuel Oschin Air and Space ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...

An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy.