STS117TowedKSC.jpg

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Description STS117TowedKSC.jpg	Atlantis is towed back from the mate/demate device at Kennedy Space Center 's Shuttle Landing Facility. The orbiter will be towed to the Orbiter Processing Facility, where processing will begin for its next launch, mission STS-122 in December. In the background is the shuttle carrier aircraft , or SCA. Atlantis arrived at Kennedy Space Center atop the SCA on July 3 after it landed at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of mission STS-117 .
Date	3 July 2007
Source	NASA/KSC image KSC-07PD-1797 (direct image URL [1] )
Author	NASA/George Shelton
Permission ( Reusing this file )	Public domain

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