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KSC-07pd1762
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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. Visible on Atlantis is the tail cone that covers and protects the main engines during the ferry flight. 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.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-07pd1762. NASA/KSC, 2007-07-03. Public domain. ID: KSC-07pd1762.
