CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –This modified Boeing 747, with its stripped interior, is the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at Edwards Air Force Base in California that will carry space shuttle Atlantis on its ferry flight to Florida. Atlantis landed at Edwards on May 24, which concluded mission STS-125, after two landing opportunities at Kennedy were waved off due to weather concerns. Atlantis is being returned to Florida on a ferry flight on the SCA. Atlantis' next assignment is the STS-129 mission, targeted to launch in November 2009. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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May 29, 2009
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