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KSC-05PD-1911
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The orbiter Discovery on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, is towed into the mate_demate device at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility. Visible on the orbiter is the tail cone that covers the main engines during the ferry flight. Discovery was returned to Kennedy Space Center on a ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California, where it landed Aug. 9 after 13 days in space on mission STS-114.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05PD-1911. NASA/KSC, 2005-08-21. Public domain. ID: 05pd1911.
