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Technicians prepare to remove one of the space shuttle Atlantis' three main engines from the orbiter's aft section on Aug. 18, using a highly modified fork lift in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The engines will be stowed for study or future use.
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A wider view shows the space shuttle Atlantis inside the Orbiter Processing Facility.
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I would hope future use is certain.
Rather like a organ donation!
However I do hope that they are not wasted on an SLS stunt. A sad fate for some pretty advanced engineering of the 1970's. That being said the costs of refurbishment between firings were just too great.
Time to move on.
I'm with Brobof, retire and use for study-case, let's get the next generation of propulsion going already!! The Shuttles are assured their place in history, now, ONWARD!!
Is this shuttle going to arrive at the museum looking like it was stolen, joyridden, and recovered from a chop shop?
nice pics!!...I start the bidding at 5.00 dollars for the engines from a real space ship, which of course, did not bounce when landing....I hope if the russians renig on thier deal (not unheard of, think PU promises) we strip the pensions from all the higher ups involved, from the presidents to the directors...and just plain toss the advisers from the panel out of the country, EX PARTE...I bet putting it to vote by the majority would pass the legislation in the next general election as a ballot iniative.....let us hope the russian economy can hold long enough for us to get the replacement machines operational...damit jim, were engineers, we don't build spaceships on hope...........