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STS-92 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)
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STS-92 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)

NASA / AFRC · 2000-10-29 · photograph (digital archive)

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One of NASA’s two modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is bathed in the morning Sun at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, California. The modified jumbo jetliners are used to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiters between Dryden and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Boeing’s Reusable Space Systems modification facility at Palmdale, California.

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Space ShuttleSTS-92Shuttle Carrier AircraftSCAKoichi WakataMichael Lopez-AlegriaJeff WisoffBill McArthurLeroy Chiaopilot Pam MelroySpace Transportation System100th STS mission
Credit lineSTS-92 - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). NASA/AFRC, 2000-10-29. Public domain. ID: EC00-0311-8.
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