Heron&Fox Photo<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NASA</span></a>’s <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Shuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Shuttle</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Endeavour" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Endeavour</span></a> in the Mate-Demate Device, which raised the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SpaceShuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceShuttle</span></a> up to sit on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for transportation Earth, or removed the Shuttle after it had landed away from Kennedy Space Center.<br />Endeavour has on an aerodynamic tail cone to help control the aerodynamic interference of the Shuttle from the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Boeing</span></a> 747 that will carry the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Orbiter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orbiter</span></a>.</p><p>Get a print with this image or other merchandise at <a href="https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/stitched-panorama-of-endeavour-in-the-mate-demate-device-heron-and-fox.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heronfox.pixels.com/featured/s</span><span class="invisible">titched-panorama-of-endeavour-in-the-mate-demate-device-heron-and-fox.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/KennedySpaceCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KennedySpaceCenter</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/KSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KSC</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MateDemateDevice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MateDemateDevice</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MDD</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ShuttleLandingFacility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShuttleLandingFacility</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SLC</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Florida</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photography</span></a></p>
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Heron&Fox Photo<p>In order for <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NASA</span></a> to test <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hardware</span></a> and <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>software</span></a> to allow an <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/interplanetary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>interplanetary</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spacecraft</span></a> to select a landing site amid a field of hazards, it built a “<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/lunar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lunar</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/hazard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hazard</span></a> field” was built at the end of the Shuttle Landing Facility, creating a <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MoonScape" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MoonScape</span></a> in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Florida</span></a>..<br />The Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology, ALHAT, was to use <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LIDAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LIDAR</span></a> to scan the surface and identify safe landing zones and steer a landing spacecraft toward safety and away from danger.<br />It was placed on the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>methane</span></a>-burning Project <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Morpheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Morpheus</span></a> vehicle meant to test methane propellants.<br />Unfortunate Morpheus exploded during testing before <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ALHAT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ALHAT</span></a> could get data, but the experiment was rebuilt. # AutonomousLandingAndHazardAvoidanceTechnology, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/KennedySpaceCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KennedySpaceCenter</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/KSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KSC</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ShuttleLandingFacility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShuttleLandingFacility</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ProjectMorpheus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProjectMorpheus</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Landscape</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LandscapePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LandscapePhotography</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photography</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photograph" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photograph</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photo</span></a><br />Buy a print: <a href="https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/a-little-piece-of-the-moon-in-florida-heron-and-fox.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heronfox.pixels.com/featured/a</span><span class="invisible">-little-piece-of-the-moon-in-florida-heron-and-fox.html</span></a></p>
Heron&Fox Photo<p>When the time came to take <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NASA</span></a>’s Space <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Shuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Shuttle</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Discovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Discovery</span></a> to the Smithsonian near Washington, the Shuttle Carrier <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Aircraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aircraft</span></a> was employed, as it usually was when the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SpaceShuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceShuttle</span></a> needed to move.<br />This required the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Orbiter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Orbiter</span></a> to be moved inside a truss-work structured called the Mate-Demate <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Device" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Device</span></a>, lifted up by cranes, and the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Boeing</span></a> 747 Shuttle Carrier Airfcraft moved underneath for the Shuttle to be secured for transport.<br />An aerodynamic tail cone makes the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SCA</span></a> easier to control.<br />The <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MDD</span></a> is next to the Shuttle Landing Facility.<br /><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SpaceShuttleOrbiter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceShuttleOrbiter</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SpaceShuttleDiscovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceShuttleDiscovery</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MateDemateDevice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MateDemateDevice</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MDD</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ShuttleCarierAircraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShuttleCarierAircraft</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Boeing747" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Boeing747</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SCA</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ShuttleLandingFacility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShuttleLandingFacility</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SLF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SLF</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aviation</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AviationPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AviationPhotography</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spacecraft</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photograph" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photograph</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photography</span></a>, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photo</span></a><br /><a href="https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/discovery-mounted-on-the-shuttle-carrier-aircraft-heron-and-fox.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heronfox.pixels.com/featured/d</span><span class="invisible">iscovery-mounted-on-the-shuttle-carrier-aircraft-heron-and-fox.html</span></a></p>
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