NASA Photo ID: S91-36095          File Name: 10065101.gif 
 
Film Type: 70mm CN                Date Taken: 05/06/91 
 
Title: Air to air view of Endeavour, OV-105, atop SCA flies over JSC enroute to KSC 
 
Description: 
 
Air to air view shows Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, atop a Shuttle  
Carrier Aircraft (SCA) NASA 911, a modified Boeing 747, flying over the 
Clear  Lake / NASA JSC area prior to a brief stopover at Ellington Field, 
near JSC.   JSC site appears behind and below the orbiter/aircraft 
combination with Clear  Creek and Egret Bay Blvd in the foreground and 
Clear Lake and Galveston Bay  in the background.  OV-105 rolled out at 
Rockwell's Palmdale facility on  04-25-91 to once more bring to four the 
total of NASA Shuttles available for  flight assignment.  It left Houston 
later on this day headed for another stop  in Mississippi before landing in 
Florida on 05-07-91.  This photograph was  taken from a T-38 aircraft by 
Sheri J. Dunnette of JSC's Image Sciences  Division (ISD).