Shuttle Carrier Aircraft - Gallery

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  • Shuttle Carrier Aircraft carries Discovery from Edwards AFB to Kennedy Space Center, Florida

  • One of the SCAs at its Dryden Flight Research Center home, with a very wet Rogers Dry Lake behind it.

  • Aft end of the SCA interior. Note the large stuffed spider mounted on the aft pressure bulkhead.

  • The first class section in the nose of N905NA. This is the only area on the main deck that has not been stripped to the bare metal

  • Atlantis on a Shuttle Carrier returning to Kennedy Space Center in 1998.

  • SCA approaching Endeavour suspended in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), April, 1994

  • SCA mating with Endeavour in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), April, 1994

  • SCA ferry flights, 1992

  • Takeoff of SCA N905NA carrying Enterprise. Note the American Airlines pinstriping.

  • Enterprise separating from N905NA.

  • Space Shuttle Discovery transported to Washington, D.C. April, 2012

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