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KSC-05PD-1920
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — In the early morning hours at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, the orbiter Discovery is suspended within the mate_demate device after the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, has rolled away from beneath it. 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.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05PD-1920. NASA/KSC, 2005-08-22. Public domain. ID: 05pd1920.
