Mate-Demate Device
The Space Shuttle Endeavour rests atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft in the Mate-Demate Device MDD at the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility—later redesignated the Armstrong Flight Research Center—in Edwards, California, shortly before being ferried back to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Endeavour landed at 1:57 p.m. PDT May 16, 1992, marking the completion of the new orbiter's first mission in space, STS-49, during which the crew of seven rendezvoused with the Intelsat VI satellite, attached a booster motor, and redeployed it into a high geosynchronous orbit. Endeavour and its crew were launched on a planned 7-day mission May 7, 1992, but the landing was delayed two days to allow extra time to rescue Intelsat and complete space station assembly techniques originally planned.
Credit: NASA/Les Teal
Image Number: EC92-5211-1
Date: May 1992
Mate-Demate Device
The Space Shuttle Endeavour rests atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft in the Mate-Demate Device MDD at the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility—later redesignated the Armstrong Flight Research Center—in Edwards, California, shortly before being ferried back to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Endeavour landed at 1:57 p.m. PDT May 16, 1992, marking the completion of the new orbiter's first mission in space, STS-49, during which the crew of seven rendezvoused with the Intelsat VI satellite, attached a booster motor, and redeployed it into a high geosynchronous orbit. Endeavour and its crew were launched on a planned 7-day mission May 7, 1992, but the landing was delayed two days to allow extra time to rescue Intelsat and complete space station assembly techniques originally planned.
Credit: NASA/Les Teal
Image Number: EC92-5211-1
Date: May 1992