The Space Shuttle Discovery receives post-flight servicing in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), following its landing at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, August 9, 2005.
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The Space Shuttle Discovery receives post-flight servicing in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), following its landing at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, August 9, 2005. The gantry-like MDD structure is used for servicing the shuttle orbiters in preparation for their ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including mounting the shuttle atop NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Shuttle Crew: Commander Eileen Collins; Pilot James Kelly; and Mission Specialists Charles Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Soichi Noguchi, Stephen Robinson, and Andrew Thomas.
August 11, 2005
NASA / Photo Tony Landis