Space shuttle Atlantis being carried piggyback on its modified Boeing 747 transport plane. This was after mission STS-98, which landed at Edwards Air

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Space shuttle Atlantis being carried piggyback on its modified Boeing 747 transport plane. This was after mission STS-98, which landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA, on 20th February 2001. This photograph was taken at Edwards AFB on 1st March 2001, when the shuttle was being transported back to its base at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

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Photo credit: © NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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