Space Shuttle Pathfinder

Pathfinder

Pathfinder on the mate-demate device at the Shuttle Landing Facility
Type	Space Shuttle test simulator
Construction number	OV-098
Country	United States
Status	Retired; on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
No. of missions	6 tests

The Space Shuttle Pathfinder (unofficial Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-098) is a Space Shuttle test simulator made of steel and wood. Constructed by NASA in 1977 as an unnamed facilities test article, it was purchased in the early 1980s by the America-Japan Society, Inc. which had it refurbished, named it, and placed it on display in the Great Space Shuttle Exhibition in Tokyo.^[1] The mockup was later returned to the United States and placed on permanent display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in May 1988.