File:Space Shuttle Orbiter model Pathfinder.jpg

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Description	At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the space shuttle mock-up, dubbed Pathfinder, is attached to the Mate-Demate Device for at fit-check Oct. 19, 1978. The mock-up, constructed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., possessed the general dimensions, weight and balance of a real space shuttle. It was shipped to Kennedy by barge and then used to fit-check the work platforms of the Mate-Demate Device, orbiter processing facilities and Vehicle Assembly Building, as well as support ground crew training. It also was used to rehearse post-landing procedures at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility. After being on display at the "Great Space Shuttle Exposition" in Tokyo from June 1983 to August 1984, the mock-up returned to Marshall and now is on permanent display at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center near Huntsville.
Date	Taken on 19 October 1978
Source	Kennedy Space Center image archive
Author	NASA

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00:23, 2 April 2012	1,247 × 827 (321,317 bytes)	w:en:RadioFan (talk \| contribs)	Source: Kennedy Space Center Archives, #KSC-78PC-0685 Released 10/19/1978