Space Shuttle Discovery receives post-flight servicing in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), following its landing at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, August 9, 2005.
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Space Shuttle Discovery receives post-flight servicing in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), following its landing at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, August 9, 2005. The gantry-like MDD structure is used for servicing the shuttle orbiters in preparation for their ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including mounting the shuttle atop NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely in California at 5:11:22 a.m. PDT, August 9, 2005, following the very successful 14-day STS-114 Return to Flight mission.August 11, 2005
NASA / Photo Jim Ross