Photo credit: NASA, Glenn Benson
(糖心视频) -- In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA鈥檚 Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians sitting on the Hyster forklift monitor the progress as technicians in the aft portion of space shuttle Atlantis connect replica shuttle main engine RSME number 2.
Three RSMEs will be installed on Atlantis. The work is part of the Space Shuttle Program鈥檚 transition and retirement processing of the space shuttle fleet.
A groundbreaking was held Jan. 18 for Atlantis鈥� future home, a 65,000-square-foot exhibit hall in Shuttle Plaza at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Atlantis is scheduled to roll over to the visitor complex in November in preparation for the exhibit鈥檚 grand opening in July 2013.
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