Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection
Description:
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- After a three-day trip from California, the shuttle carrier aircraft, or SCA, and its piggyback passenger Atlantis fly over the Kennedy Space Center before landing on the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility runway. Touchdown was at 8:27 a.m. EDT. The SCA is a modified Boeing 747 jetliner. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California to end mission STS-117. The return to KSC began July 1 and took three days after stops across the country for fuel. The last stop was at Ft. Campbell in Kentucky. Weather conditions over the last leg postponed the return trip until July 3. Atlantis will be removed from the back of the SCA via the mate/demate device at the SLF. It will then be towed to the Orbiter Processing Facility to begin processing for its next launch, mission STS-122 in December. Photo credit: NASA/Ken Thornsley
Release Date:
07/03/2007
Photo Credit:
NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Release:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
facet_where:
Florida
facet_where:
California
facet_where:
Edwards Air Force Base
facet_where:
Kentucky
facet_where:
Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
facet_when:
07-03-2007
facet_when_year:
2007
Photo Number:
KSC-07PD-1732
UID:
SPD-KSCMA-KSC-07PD-1 732
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- After a three-day trip from California, the shuttle ca…