Shuttle Atlantis emerges from the Mate-Demate-Device mounted to Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the return flight to Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Photographer NASA/Jim Ross

Location AFRC

Date December 7, 1991

AFRC Armstrong Flight Research Center NACA National Advisory Committee DFRC Dryden Flight Research Center Space Shuttle Atlantis Mate-Demate MDD Shuttle Carrier Aircraft SCA

Shuttle Atlantis Mounted to Boeing 747