A technician sitting on the Hyster forklift monitors the progress as the engine removal device moves toward Engine #1.

In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a technician sitting on the Hyster forklift monitors the progress as the engine removal device moves toward Engine #1, the final engine to be removed from space shuttle Atlantis. The forklift will be used to remove the engine and transport it to the Engine Shop for possible future use. Each of the three space shuttle main engines is 14 feet long and weighs 7,800 pounds. Removal of the space shuttle main engines is part of the Transition and Retirement work that is being performed in order to prepare Atlantis for eventual display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Photo credit: Frankie Martin