Disassembly and refurbishment of space shuttle Discovery has been temporarily suspended for safekeeping.

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, disassembly and refurbishment of space shuttle Discovery has been temporarily suspended, and it has been towed into the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, for safekeeping.

Discovery will be stored inside the VAB for approximately one month while shuttle Atlantis undergoes processing in OPF-2 following its final mission, STS-135. Discovery flew its 39th and final mission, STS-133, in February and March 2011, and currently is being prepared for public display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. For more information about Discovery's Transition and Retirement, visit
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/discovery_rss_collection_archive_1.html. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann