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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Secured inside a railway car, a nozzle exit cone for a solid rocket booster that will be used on space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission is moved by locomotive no. 2 to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The boosters are manufactured by Alliant Techsystems Inc., or ATK. EGandG_URS runs Kennedy's railway system for NASA. The locomotive, one of three at Kennedy, will push the railway car into the facility, necessitating the use of spacer cars behind the locomotive as a safety measure. Photo credit: NASA_Troy Cryder