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White to move and mate in two #407 - Space Shuttle Enterprise and Star Trek [1]
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Date: 2023-09-19
On September 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle, named the Enterprise, from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California.
As Enterprise emerged from the hangar, the Air Force Band of the Golden West from March Air Force Base in Riverside County, CA, played Alexander Courage’s Star Trek musical score.
Why the Star Trek music?
The first shuttle was planned to be named the Constitution, but thanks to a massive write-in campaign by Star Trek fans, President Ford advised NASA to change the name to Enterprise.
Star Trek creator Roddenberry and many of the show’s cast members attended the Shuttle rollout ceremony, hosted by NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher.
It is not clear why William Shatner was missing from the event, but 35 years later on mission STS-133, the wakeup call for astronauts onboard Space Shuttle Discovery on Monday March 7, 2011 was narrated by him -
"Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30 year mission: To seek out new science. To build new outposts. To bring nations together on the final frontier. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before."
The last shuttle mission was STS-135 on July 8, 2011.
Now let’s make a bold move to solve today’s chess puzzle composed by Comins Mansfield, the well-known British composer of Two Move Chess problems, in 1976, the year of the Enterprise.
P.S.
The chess puzzle is published on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
It is customary for advanced players to wait till midnight ET before posting the full solution. Before then, they provide some stats about the solution (e.g., the minimum number of distinct checkmate moves), help guide others, and sometimes post hints. But there are no hard-and-fast rules; feel free to post comments as you please.
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