Editing USS Enterprise CVN-65 (section)

==1960 TO 1969==

After commissioning, Enterprise began a lengthy series of tests and training exercises designed to determine the full capabilities of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Immediately her superlative characteristics and performance became obvious.

•	30 October 1961: Three TF Traders of VR-40 took off from her deck to transport VIPs to the mainland after observing sea trials. 

•	January 1962: The first air operations were conducted by Enterprise as Commander George Talley, USN made an arrested landing and catapult launch in an Vought F8 Crusader. 

•	20 February 1962: Enterprise played a role in the space age: she acted as a tracking and measuring station for the epochal flight of Friendship VII, the Project Mercury space capsule in which Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC, made the United States’s first orbital spaceflight. 

•	August 1962: Enterprise joined the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean sea. 

•	October 1962: She returned to Norfolk, Virginia.