John wrote in
:

OK campers,

What is this . . . the best I could come up with was a mounting point
on the many-tired trailer you occassionally see being used to move
orbiters around. But, why the note indicated which way goes up? I
mean between all the times its been done and the use of in hand
procedures . . . this seems a little silly.

It's an aft(?) mounting point on one of the converted 747 Shuttle carriers,
and yes, it's silly. More or less identical to the mounting points on
the External Tank and plugs into the same location on the orbiter. The
trailers probably have a similar mount.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:E...-030126-02.jpg


The winner gets an "I miss Henry (and Rusty, et al) t-shirt.

Dibs!

--Damon