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KSC-79pc-0047

NASA / KSC · 1979-03-24 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The Space Shuttle Columbia, piggy-back on its 747 carrier aircraft, is only seconds away from a touchdown at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), completing its 2,400-mile ferry flight from Dryden Flight Research Center in California. Columbia, the first of the fleet of Space Shuttles, is scheduled for the first Space Shuttle flight n 1981.

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Credit lineKSC-79pc-0047. NASA/KSC, 1979-03-24. Public domain. ID: 79PC0047.
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