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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Orbiter Processing Facility-1 (OPF-1) is ready to receive space shuttle Discovery, parked outside the hangar door. Until this morning, shuttle Endeavour was undergoing decommissioning activities in the bay. Endeavour temporarily is being placed in storage in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Both shuttles stopped briefly outside OPF-3 for a "nose-to-nose" photo opportunity. In OPF-1, Discovery will undergo further preparations for public display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. Endeavour will be stored in the VAB until October when it will be moved into OPF-2 for further work to get it ready for public display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis