The Space Shuttle Discovery is parked within the Mate-Demate Device gantry at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center prior to beginning turnaround processing for its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The Space Shuttle Discovery is parked within the Mate-Demate Device gantry at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center prior to beginning turnaround processing for its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Discoloration on Discovery’s reinforced carbon-carbon nose cap gives evidence of the extreme heating it encountered during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere prior to landing Sept. 11.September 12, 2009
NASA Photo / Tony Landis