What’s it like to fly a plane with a shuttle on top? Well, noisy …
(Photo: Robert Markowitz / AP / NASA)
LOS ANGELES — It’s the ultimate piggyback ride: A space shuttle perched atop a Boeing 747 as the pair crisscrosses the country.
For three decades, this was how NASA transported shuttles that landed in the California desert to their Florida home base. But it’s coming to an end.
Source: MSNBC
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