Shuttle, piggyback

In March 1979, the space shuttle Columbia lands at the Kennedy Space Center after a cross-country ride from California's Dryden Flight Research Center on the back of a 747. At this point, no shuttle has yet gone into space. Columbia's maiden orbital flight is still two years away.

July 6, 2012 1:16 PM PDT

Photo by: NASA

| Caption by: Jonathan Skillings

 

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