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KSC-79pc-0052

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 in 1981.

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Credit lineKSC-79pc-0052. NASA/KSC, 1979-03-24. Public domain. ID: 79pc0052.
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