Editing Space Shuttle Pathfinder (section)

{{short description|Space Shuttle test simulator}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Space Shuttle ''Pathfinder''}}
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{{Infobox Space Shuttle
| name = ''Pathfinder''
| image = Space Shuttle Orbiter model Pathfinder.jpg
| caption = ''Pathfinder'' on the mate-demate device at the [[Shuttle Landing Facility]]
| type = [[Space Shuttle]] test simulator
| number = OV-098
| country = United States
| missions = 6 tests
| status = Retired; on display at the [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]], [[Huntsville, Alabama]]
|Enterprise=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise}}
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 (aerospace)|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.<ref name="1st100" /> 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.