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STS-64 and 747-SCA Ferry Flight Takeoff
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STS-64 and 747-SCA Ferry Flight Takeoff

NASA / AFRC · 1994-09-26 · photograph (digital archive)

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The Space Shuttle Discovery, mated to NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), takes to the air for its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft, with a crew of six, was launched into a 57-degree high inclination orbit from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 3:23 p.m., 9 September 1994.

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Space ShuttleNASASpacelabIUSInertial Upper StageRockwellRocketdyneBoeingThiokolMartin MariettaLockheed MartinDryden Flight Research Center
Credit lineSTS-64 and 747-SCA Ferry Flight Takeoff. NASA/AFRC, 1994-09-26. Public domain. ID: EC94-42750-6.
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