#sts-44

[lonestarflight]

"Evening light begins to fade at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later redesignated Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, Calif., as technicians begin the task of mounting the Space Shuttle Atlantis atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA #911) for the ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., following its STS-44 flight November 24 to December 1, 1991. Post-flight servicing of the orbiters, and the mating operation, is carried out at Dryden at the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), the large gantry-like structure that hoists the spacecraft to various levels during post-space flight processing and attachment to the 747."

Date: December 1991

Photographed by Jim Ross.

NASA ID: EC91-659-2

[gregorygalloway]

Franklin Story Musgrave (born 19 August 1935)

[lonestarflight]

"Evening light begins to fade at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (later redesignated Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, Calif., as technicians begin the task of mounting the Space Shuttle Atlantis atop NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (NASA N911NA) for the ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., following its STS-44 flight November 24 to December 1, 1991. Post-flight servicing of the orbiters, and the mating operation is carried out at Dryden at the Mate-Demate Device, the large gantry-like structure that hoists the spacecraft to various levels during post-spaceflight processing and attachment to the 747."

Date: 1991

Photographed by Jim Ross.

NASA ID: EC91-659-05

[gregorygalloway]

Franklin Story Musgrave (born 19 August 1935)

[gregorygalloway]

The Space Shuttle Atlantis began its week-long mission (STS-44) on 24 November 1991.

The 6-person crew included Pilot Terence Hendricks, Commander Fred Gregory, Mission Specialists Story Musgrave, Mario Runco, and James Voss, and Payload Specialist Thomas Hennen.

[gregorygalloway]

Frederick Drew Gregory (born 7 January 1941)