Space shuttle Atlantis on a Boeing 747

Space shuttle Atlantis piggybacking on a modified Boeing 747 transport plane. It has just completed mission STS-117, which landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, USA, on 22nd June 2007. It is now being transported to the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. Photographed at Edwards Air Force Base on 1st July 2007.

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