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KSC-2012-2241
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers attach space shuttle Discovery to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft in the mate-demate device. The device, known as the MDD, is a large gantry-like steel structure used to hoist a shuttle off the ground and position it onto the back of the aircraft, or SCA.
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Credit lineKSC-2012-2241. NASA/KSC, 2012-04-15. Public domain. ID: KSC-2012-2241.
