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STS-92 - Discovery Fly-away - return to Florida
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Carrying the Space Shuttle Discovery piggyback, one of NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lifts off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The Discovery was ferried from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 2, 2000, after extensive post-landing servicing and ferry flight preparations.
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Credit lineSTS-92 - Discovery Fly-away - return to Florida. NASA/AFRC, 2000-11-02. Public domain. ID: EC00-0311-13.
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