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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Workers in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida move a replica shuttle main engine (RSME) into position for installation on space shuttle Discovery. The RSME is one of three that will be installed on Discovery during Space Shuttle Program transition and retirement activities. The replicas are being built in the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne engine shop at Kennedy to replace the shuttle engines which will be placed in storage to support NASA's Space Launch System, under development. Discovery is being prepared for display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann