Space Shuttle Discovery hoisted 60 feet above ground in the Mate-DeMate gantry at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
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With Space Shuttle Discovery hoisted 60 feet above ground in the Mate-DeMate gantry at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA’s modified Boeing 747 shuttle carrier is towed beneath for mating with Discovery prior to their ferry flight back to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the STS-128 shuttle mission.September 19, 2009
NASA photo / Tony Landis