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English: The Space Shuttle Discovery is parked within the Mate-Demate Device gantry at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center prior to beginning turnaround processing for its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Discoloration on Discovery's reinforced carbon-carbon nose cap gives evidence of the extreme heating it encountered during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere prior to landing Sept. 11.
Date Taken on 12 September 2009, 17:55 (according to Exif data)
Source http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/STS-128/index.html
Author NASA / Tony Landis
This image or video was catalogued by Armstrong Flight Research Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ED09-0253-15.

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