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KSC-99pc0164
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The Chandra X-ray Observatory is unloaded from an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transporter two days after landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility on Feb. 4. The observatory sits cradled in the cargo hold of a tractor-trailer rig called the Space Cargo Transportation System, which closely resembles the size and shape of the Shuttle cargo bay. In the background (left) is the mate-demate device, used when an orbiter is returned to KSC on the back of a Shuttle carrier aircraft.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-99pc0164. NASA/KSC, 1999-02-06. Public domain. ID: KSC-99pc0164.
