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NASA Image eXchange Collection
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NASA Image eXchange Collection
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STS-92 - Discovery Fly-away - return to Florida
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STS-92 - Discovery Fly-away - return to Florida
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Carrying the Space Shuttle Discovery piggyback, one of NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lifts off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The Discovery was ferried from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 2, 2000, after extensive post-landing servicing and ferry flight preparations. STS-92 was the 100th mission since the fleet of four Space Shuttles began flying in 1981. (Due to schedule changes, missions are not always launched in the order that was originally planned.) The almost 13-day mission, the 46th Shuttle mission to land at Edwards, was the last construction mission for the International Space Station prior to the first scientists taking up residency in the orbiting space laboratory the following month. The seven-member crew on STS-92 included mission specialists Koichi Wakata, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Jeff Wisoff, Bill McArthur and Leroy Chiao, pilot Pam Melroy and mission commander Brian Duffy.
Description
Carrying the Space Shuttle Discovery piggyback, one of NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft lifts off the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The Discovery was ferried from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 2, 2000, after extensive post-landing servicing and ferry flight preparations. STS-92 was the 100th mission since the fleet of four Space Shuttles began flying in 1981. (Due to schedule changes, missions are not always launched in the order that was originally planned.) The almost 13-day mission, the 46th Shuttle mission to land at Edwards, was the last construction mission for the International Space Station prior to the first scientists taking up residency in the orbiting space laboratory the following month. The seven-member crew on STS-92 included mission specialists Koichi Wakata, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Jeff Wisoff, Bill McArthur and Leroy Chiao, pilot Pam Melroy and mission commander Brian Duffy.
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11.02.2000
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Brian Duffy
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Brian Duffy
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Koichi Wakata
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Koichi Wakata
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Leroy Chiao
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Leroy Chiao
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Michael Lopez-Alegria
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Michael Lopez-Alegria
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Space Shuttle Orbiter
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Space Shuttle Orbiter
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International Space Station (ISS)
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International Space Station (ISS)
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Florida
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Florida
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California
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California
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Edwards Air Force Base
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Edwards Air Force Base
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Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
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Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
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Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
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Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
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1981
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1981
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November 2, 2000
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November 2, 2000
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11-02-2000
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11-02-2000
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1981
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1981
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2000
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2000
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IMAGE
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EC00-0311-13
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SPD-NIX-EC00-0311-13
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SPD-NIX-EC00-0311-13
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