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    A Mate-Demate Device (MDD) is a specialized crane designed to lift a Space Shuttle orbiter onto and off the back of a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Four Mate-Demate...
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    the SCAs by Mate-Demate Devices, large gantry-like structures that hoisted the orbiters off the ground for post-flight servicing then mated them with the...
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    the SLF has 1,001 feet (305 m) of paved overruns at each end. The Mate-Demate Device (MDD), for use when the Shuttle was transported by the Shuttle Carrier...
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    Enterprise touched down at JFK International Airport. The mobile Mate-Demate Device and cranes were transported from Dulles to the ramp at JFK and the...
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    KSC had the Orbiter Processing Facility, Shuttle Runway facility, Mate-Demate Device (for loading the Orbiter on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft), the Vehicle...
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  • clinical depression. Mate-Demate Device, a specialized crane used to piggyback the Space Shuttle onto an airplane Medical Devices Directive Midland Airpark...
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    Pathfinder Pathfinder on the mate-demate device at the Shuttle Landing Facility Type Space Shuttle test simulator Construction number OV-098 Country United...
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    allowed the transportation of the orbiter from the OPF to either the SCA "Mate-Demate" stand or the VAB without placing any additional stress on the undercarriage...
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    are being negotiated. These tests may be used to develop procedures for mating a spacecraft to its launch vehicle, emergency access and egress, maintenance...
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    disaster (report) Columbia disaster (report) Support Crawler-transporter Mate-Demate Device Mobile Launcher Platform NASA recovery ship Orbiter Processing Facility...
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    rollout distance was 2.41 km (1.50 mi). Atlantis was towed to the Mate-Demate Device by around 15:00 PST. About 62 impacts in the shuttle's Thermal Protection...
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  • recumbent position Mounting provisions for four additional Sky Genie egress devices (see picture) Escape Pole mounting provisions for three additional lanyards...
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    quality reinforced concrete. At the edge of the runway was a special matingdemating device, designed to lift an orbiter off its Antonov An-225 Mriya carrier...
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  • disaster (report) Columbia disaster (report) Support Crawler-transporter Mate-Demate Device Mobile Launcher Platform NASA recovery ship Orbiter Processing Facility...
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    quality reinforced concrete. At the edge of the runway was a special mating-demating device, designed to lift an orbiter off its Antonov An-225 Mriya carrier...
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    disaster (report) Columbia disaster (report) Support Crawler-transporter Mate-Demate Device Mobile Launcher Platform NASA recovery ship Orbiter Processing Facility...
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    Edwards Air Force Base, Atlantis was lifted into the air using the Mate-DeMate device, and attached to the top of a modified Boeing 747, called a Shuttle...
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    Resolution for contingencies during demate are generally similar to those for preparation and execution of mating operations. Many of them effectively...
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    because the ground connection is broken before the power connection when demating. An additional problem is that MHV connectors are easily mistaken for BNC...
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  • the practice of removing power from an electrical circuit prior to mating or demating the interface of the circuit. Deadfacing is used to prevent short...
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    to endure physical stress (such as connectors that are frequently mated and demated or that connect to cables expected to impart substantial stress to...
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    with the MPLM. Once the hatches were closed, the MPLM was deactivated, demated and berthed back in the payload bay of the space shuttle. During this process...
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  • and `then` hit the water," recalled Weston. The wings and the fuselage demated on impact. 18 June An infamous day in the history of RAF Biggin Hill when...
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    spacewalk, demated a cable to a failed portion of the 1B array, broke torque on the P4 electronic boxes, and installed cables along the truss to be mated at the...
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    the next spacewalk, demated the 1B array, broke torque on the P4 electronic boxes, and installed cables along the truss to be mated at the end of EVA 5...
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  • the next spacewalk, demated the 1B array, broke torque on the P4 electronic boxes, and installed cables along the truss to be mated at the end of EVA 5...
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