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Space Shuttle Discovery, atop Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905, flies over Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 6 during November 1984. Discovery is at Vandenberg for testing of the Mate-Demate Device, which allows a shuttle to be affixed to, or removed from, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.