<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6bccbb16-46f4-4775-a4a3-89a4a4887686/F162B7C5-025B-4620-AAD6-366389515B17/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/323E53D7-1043-4847-A26F-D40A9A2A4706" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html"><CENTER> <B> Shuttle Ferry </B> <B> Credit: </B> <A href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/people/bios/women/c.thomas.html">Carla Thomas</A>, <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</A> </CENTER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html"><P> <B> Explanation: </B> How does a space shuttle that <A href="http://www.edwards.af.mil/">landed in California</A> get back <A href="http://www.infoplease.com/states.html">to Florida</A> for its next <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021023.html">launch</A>? The answer is by ferry. <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</A> operates two commercial <A href="http://www.boeing.com/commercial/747family/background.html">Boeing 747</A> airplanes modified to carry a <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990411.html">space shuttle</A> on their backs. Designated officially as <A href="http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/sca.asp">Shuttle Carrier Aircraft</A> or <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Carrier_Aircraft">SCA</A>, the 747s were made for commercial flights but bolstered by NASA with several struts, stabilizers, and electronic monitors. Spanning about 70 meters in length, the <A href="http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-Ferry/Medium/index.html">two aircraft</A>'s combined mass is nearly 150,000 kilograms. <A href="http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/STS-Ferry/HTML/EC98-44740-2.html">Pictured above</A>, the space shuttle <A href="http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/atlantis.html">Atlantis</A> is shown being <A href="http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/STS-Ferry/">ferried</A> back to <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html">NASA Kennedy Space Center</A> in Florida in September 1998. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F162B7C5-025B-4620-AAD6-366389515B17/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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