Discovery sits on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, as it is towed into the mate/demate device at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility.
Discovery sits on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, as it is towed into the mate/demate device at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility.
Discovery was returned to Kennedy Space Center on a ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California, where it landed after 13 days in space on mission STS-114.
Image credit: NASA
Aug. 21, 2005