#sts-128

[lonestarflight]

"This scene, photographed from the International Space Station while docked with Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-128), shows the orbiter and a Soyuz TMA-14 vehicle docked with the orbital outpost."

Date: September 5, 2009

NASA ID: S128-E-007628

[gregorygalloway]

Patrick Forrester (born 31 March 1957)

[lonestarflight]

"With Space Shuttle Discovery hoisted 60 feet above ground in the Mate-DeMate gantry at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA's modified Boeing 747 shuttle carrier is towed beneath for mating with Discovery prior to their ferry flight back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the STS-128 shuttle mission."

Date: September 19, 2009

NASA ID: ED09-0253-98

[lonestarflight]

"Space Shuttle Discovery was carefully placed atop the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft during mating operations in preparation for its ferry flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida."

Photographed by Tony Landis.

Date: September 18, 2009

NASA ID: ED09-0253-100

[lonestarflight]

"STS-128 Discovery Awaits the 747 SCA

With Space Shuttle Discovery hoisted 60 feet above ground in the Mate-DeMate gantry at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA's modified Boeing 747 shuttle carrier is towed beneath for mating with Discovery prior to their ferry flight back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the STS-128 shuttle mission."

Date: September 19, 2009

NASA ID: ED09-0253-98

[lonestarflight]

Space Shuttle Discovery in Mate-Demate Device at the Edwards Air Force. This was after STS-128.

Date: September 2009

NARA: 12042847

[lonestarflight]

"Space Shuttle Discovery, mounted on leveling jacks, is surrounded by work platforms while undergoing servicing and preparations at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center for its ferry flight to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida."

Photographed by Tony Landis

Date: September 15, 2009

NASA ID: ED09-0253-75

[lonestarflight]

"STS-128 Discovery Prepares for Ferry Flight

United Space Alliance technician Glen Hall (left) and engineer Jason McBride (right) manually pushed the doors into the locked position following retraction of Space Shuttle Discovery's nose landing gear. Discovery was being prepared for its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in the Mate-Demate Device at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center after its landing at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of mission STS-128 on September 11, 2009."

Photographed by Tony Landis

Date: September 17, 2009

NASA ID: ED09-0253-86