KSC01pp0511
The wheels on Atlantis are lowered while the orbiter is suspended by an overhead crane in the mate/demate device at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility. It was removed from the back of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft in the background. Atlantis just returned from California atop the SCA after its Feb. 19 landing at Edwards Air Force Base concluding mission STS-98. The ferry flight began March 1; unfavorable weather conditions kept it on the ground at Altus AFB, Okla., until it could return to Florida. Atlantis will be transported to the Orbiter Processing Facility to prepare it for mission STS-104, the 10th construction flight to the International Space Station, scheduled to launch June 8
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NASA ID
KSC01pp0511
Date Created
March 6, 2001
Center
KSC
Media Type
image
Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL
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