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#NASA’s #Space #Shuttle #Endeavour in the Mate-Demate Device, which raised the #SpaceShuttle up to sit on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for transportation Earth, or removed the Shuttle after it had landed away from Kennedy Space Center.
Endeavour has on an aerodynamic tail cone to help control the aerodynamic interference of the Shuttle from the #Boeing 747 that will carry the #Orbiter.

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#KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #MateDemateDevice, #MDD, #ShuttleLandingFacility, #SLC, #Florida, #Photography

When the time came to take #NASA’s Space #Shuttle #Discovery to the Smithsonian near Washington, the Shuttle Carrier #Aircraft was employed, as it usually was when the #SpaceShuttle needed to move.
This required the #Orbiter to be moved inside a truss-work structured called the Mate-Demate #Device, lifted up by cranes, and the #Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Airfcraft moved underneath for the Shuttle to be secured for transport.
An aerodynamic tail cone makes the #SCA easier to control.
The #MDD is next to the Shuttle Landing Facility.
#SpaceShuttleOrbiter, #SpaceShuttleDiscovery, #MateDemateDevice, #MDD, #ShuttleCarierAircraft, #Boeing747, #SCA, #ShuttleLandingFacility, #SLF, #Aviation, #AviationPhotography, #Spacecraft, #Photograph, #Photography, #Photo
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