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PKIDelirium
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2012-04-11, 14:57

Unloading the orbiters at their destinations will be a little trickier, though. There are no portable mate-demate devices, they only exist at KSC, Edwards and White Sands.

Unloading Discovery at Dulles, and then loading Enterprise, will be done with several portable cranes. Enterprise will then be flown to JFK, unloaded onto a barge via cranes, and then moved from the barge to the Intrepid using cranes.

Endeavour will also be unloaded from the SCA using cranes when it arrives in California, and then transported on a large heavy-duty flatbed trailer over land to the California Science Center. Atlantis will simply be towed along the roads connecting the LC39 complex and the Visitor's Center after it's display building is ready in November.
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