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It's not everyday you see a spacecraft riding piggyback on a jumbo jet, but that's been standard practice for the shuttles as they moved from one location on Earth to another. Here, the Columbia returns to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Boeing 747 known as NASA 905.
April 12, 2011 4:20 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA
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