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KSC-08pd3980

NASA / KSC · 2008-12-12 · photograph (digital archive)

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The shuttle carrier aircraft, or SCA, and its piggyback passenger space shuttle Endeavour are poised to be towed into the mate/demate device, in the foreground. The device will lift the shuttle and put it back on the ground. Visible on Endeavour is the tail cone, which covers and protects the main engines during the ferry flight. After making the three-day trip from California, touchdown at Kennedy was at 2:44 p.m. EST. The SCA is a modified Boeing 747 jetliner.

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Credit lineKSC-08pd3980. NASA/KSC, 2008-12-12. Public domain. ID: KSC-08pd3980.
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