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KSC-07pd1761

NASA / KSC · 2007-07-03 · photograph (digital archive)

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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — On the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, the shuttle carrier aircraft, or SCA, with the orbiter Atlantis on its back is towed under the mate/demate device. The orbiter will be detached from the SCA and lowered onto a transporter. Then Atlantis will be towed to the Orbiter Processing Facility to begin processing for its next launch, mission STS-122 in December. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on June 22 to end mission STS-117.

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Credit lineKSC-07pd1761. NASA/KSC, 2007-07-03. Public domain. ID: KSC-07pd1761.
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