
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery in the foreground is on the move from Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 to the Vehicle Assembly Building VAB. Meanwhile, space shuttle Atlantis is being towed from the VAB to OPF-1. The work is part of the Space Shuttle Program’s transition and retirement processing of shuttle Discovery, which is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Discovery will remain in high bay 4 of the VAB until its scheduled transport atop a NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft modified 747 jet to Dulles International Airport in Virginia on April 17. Discovery will then be transported to the Smithsonian on April 19. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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KSC-2012-1706
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March 9, 2012
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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