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Space Shuttle Enterprise being mounted to the 747 SCA via the Mate-Demate Device at Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California.
Date: 1977
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Space Shuttle Enterprise in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at the Dryden Flight Research Center, with the tailcone removed.
Date: October 11, 1977
NASA ID: EC77-8705
Workers removing the Space Shuttle Enterprise from the 747 SCA in the Mate-Demate Device at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Date: April 25, 1979
NASA ID: link
"At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new Space Shuttle, Atlantis, arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility. The shuttle is mounted atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747. Over the next seven months Atlantis will be prepared for its maiden voyage, STS-51-J. Atlantis, NASA's fourth space-rated shuttle, was named after the two-masted boat that served as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966. The boat had a 17-member crew and accommodated up to five scientists who worked in two onboard laboratories, examining water samples and marine life. Like its predecessors, Atlantis was constructed by Rockwell International in Palmdale, Calif. The spacecraft was transported over land from Palmdale to Edwards Air Force Base on April 3, 1985 for the cross-country ferry flight to Kennedy."
Date: April 13, 1985
NASA ID: KSC-385C-1296-01, KSC-385C-1296-02, KSC-385C-169, KSC-385C-170, KSC-385C-1298-02, KSC-385C-1297-01, KSC-385C-1297-06, KSC-385C-1298-05, KSC-385C-1298-06
The Boeing 747 SCA (N905NA) with Space Shuttle Enterprise taxiing to handling fixture at Redstone Arsenal Airfield. This fixture is a portable Mate Demate-Device and once removed from the 747, she will be towed to the Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT) at Marshall Space Flight Center.
Date: March 13, 1978
Collection of the Intrepid Museum: P2014.88.02
NASA ID: 887820, 887856, 887819, 887822, 887851
Space Shuttle Enterprise being from the runway, after arriving and the Mate Demate-Device at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Date: April 25, 1979
Intrepid Museum Archive: P2013.30.01, P2013.30.03
Space Shuttle Challenger being loaded into the Mate-Demate Device at Dryden Flight Research and Research Center to
Date: July 1, 1982.
NASA ID: EC82-20141, EC82-20141 extra, EC82-20081, EC82-20081 extra
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"The Space Shuttle Endeavour receives post-flight servicing in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), following its landing at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, June 19, 2002."
Date: June 27, 2002
NASA ID: EC02-0131-7
