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Topic: Space shuttle Mate-Demate Devices (MDD)
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Donald
Member Posts: 16
From: Poway, Calif., USA
Registered: Sep 2009
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posted October 21, 2011 05:47 PM
   
What will happen to the two Mate-Demate Device (MDD) structures at Dryden Flight Research Center and Kennedy Space Center? |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 120
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted October 27, 2011 10:14 PM
Will go way out on a limb and guess that the MDDs will be sold to the highest bidder "for scrap purposes only," of course.(This subject will probably not be too high on the KSC priority list until well after the last orbiter leaves the cape.) |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 1566
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted October 29, 2011 07:50 AM
I would think the Dryden one will still end up being used as the SCA has been used to ferry at least one other aircraft on its back besides the shuttle (a drone aircraft, I forget what it is called). Of course, that is assuming at least one SCA still stays in NASA inventory as a flying aircraft rather than being parted out to keep the 747SP SOFIA flying. |
onesmallstep
Member Posts: 227
From: Staten Island, New York USA
Registered: Nov 2007
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posted October 31, 2011 04:05 PM
The other vehicle carried on a SCA was the Boeing Phantom Ray, a UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) demonstrator which only flew twice on its own power from Edwards before the testing was suspended. | |
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