A RS-25D engine in the Engine Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., is awaiting placement in a transportation canister for shipment to Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi. The 15 RS-25D engines used during the Space Shuttle Program will be stored at Stennis for future use on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, which will carry NASA’s new Orion spacecraft, cargo, equipment and science experiments beyond low-Earth orbit.

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Original image:
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More about the RS-25D:
www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/rs25d.html

More about SLS:
www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

Space Launch System Flickr photoset:
www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157627559536895/

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