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Shuttle/747 ferry flight
« on: June 01, 2009, 04:58:40 PM »
The Space Shuttle Atlantis has started her journey back home to Florida from last Sunday's landing at Edwards.  From NASA:

"Mounted atop a modified 747 jet known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, space shuttle Atlantis departed Edwards Air Force Base in California on Monday morning to begin its journey home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The pair arrived at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas at 1:22 p.m. EDT (11:22 a.m. MDT) and will spend the night there before resuming the cross-country trip tomorrow. Atlantis may be home on Tuesday if weather permits. Atlantis and a crew of seven astronauts landed at Edwards on May 24, concluding the STS-125 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time."

Here's the first leg of the trip:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA911/history/20090601/1455Z/KEDW/KBIF