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KSC-2009-3470

NASA / KSC · 2009-06-01 · photograph (digital archive)

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Hitching a ride on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, a modified Boeing 747, space shuttle Atlantis is ready for takeoff from El Paso. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on May 24, which concluded mission STS-125, after two landing opportunities at Kennedy were waved off due to weather concerns. Atlantis is being returned to Florida on a ferry flight on the SCA. Atlantis' next assignment is the STS-129 mission, targeted to launch in November 2009.

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ferry flight, SCA

Credit lineKSC-2009-3470. NASA/KSC, 2009-06-01. Public domain. ID: KSC-2009-3470.

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