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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Visitors to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are given the opportunity to compare a space shuttle, NASA’s last human spacecraft, and a full-scale test version of NASA's new Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the agency’s next generation human spacecraft. Shuttle Discovery, at left, is scheduled to depart from Kennedy in April for permanent display in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. NASA’s Orion spacecraft, under development, will take astronauts farther into space than ever before. Public tours inside the VAB are being offered regularly through Delaware North Companies Parks and Resorts, the concessionaire managing the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/kennedy. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin