A technician leaves the 'white room', the access point for entering the Space Shuttle Discovery during post-flight processing in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California.
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A technician leaves the ‘white room’, the access point for entering the Space Shuttle Discovery during post-flight processing in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California.
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.
Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely at Dryden in California at 5:11:22 a.m. PDT, August 9, 2005, following the very successful 14-day STS-114 Return to Flight mission.August 14, 2005
NASA / Photo Tom Tschida