THE HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT BLOG: From the Space Shuttle to Beyond

PHOTO OF THE DAY... NASA’s two Shuttle Carrier Aircraft were both flying above Edwards Air Force Base in California when this image was taken on August 2 of last week. The next time these two modified Boeing 747s will have an orbiter attached to them will be next year...when they ferry Discovery to the Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, Endeavour to (presumably) Los Angeles International Airport...from which she will be transported via city streets to the California Science Center in downtown L.A. and Enterprise to New York—where she will find her final resting home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Atlantis will not have to fly to her final destination—the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Visitor Complex—which is only a few miles down the road from her current location inside a KSC Orbiter Processing Facility.


NASA / Carla Thomas