Time lapse video shows three-month demolition of Armstrong's Mate-Demate Device, which prepared the space shuttles that landed at Edwards AFB for their flights back to Florida.
A large excavator removes pieces of steel from the remains of Armstrong’s Mate-Demate Device. The MDD was used to prepare the space shuttles that landed at Edwards AFB for their ferry flights back to Florida atop the SCA 747s.
October 2014
NASA Photo / Ken Ulbrich