Shuttle, Atop Jetliner, Flying Back to Florida
The space shuttle Discovery departed Tuesday on a piggyback jet ride to Florida. The shuttle, mounted atop a modified jetliner, took off from this Mojave Desert military base and headed for a first stop at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, a NASA spokesman said. The trip to Kennedy Space Center in Florida will take at least two days, with stops determined by rain and thunderstorms, he said.
The shuttle and five crew members landed here last Wednesday after a mission to deploy a satellite to study pollution damage to Earth’s protective ozone layer.
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