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heng44
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posted 03-04-2017 11:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Twenty-four years after last week's photo, Columbia is ferried back from Dryden Flight Research Center to Kennedy Space Center on March 1, 2001, following STS-98. Note that Atlantis was ferried back to KSC from Palmdale just a couple hours earlier. Though the two never flew anywhere near each other, it was the first and only time two orbiters were being ferried at the same time.

Philip
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posted 03-05-2017 01:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philip   Click Here to Email Philip     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Was NASA, after all these years still (about 35 years) using the same Boeing 747?

heng44
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By this time there were two SCA in service. After the Challenger accident the Rogers Commission recommended NASA purchase another SCA as a backup.

The first SCA was N905NA, a 747-100. It was the 87th 747 built and an ex-American Airlines aircraft. NASA contracted Boeing to re-purchase, overhaul and modify it with more powerful JT9D engines to haul the Shuttle at 15,000 feet more efficiently and safely.

The second is N911NA, an ex-Japan Airlines 747-100SR that Boeing gave the same treatment and delivered for use in 1991.

sev8n
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posted 03-05-2017 10:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for sev8n     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Based on the window configuration the above photo is of N905NA.

A higher resolution image can be found here.

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