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Technicians install the eyelid and heat shield on one of space shuttle Discovery's replica shuttle main engines.

NASA

NASA
Washington, DC, United States

Inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians install the eyelid and heat shield on one of space shuttle Discovery’s replica shuttle main engines.

The heat shields are composed of two, semi-circle-shaped sections of thermal protection system tiles that surround the engines. The work is part of the Space Shuttle Program’s transition and retirement processing of shuttle Discovery. Discovery is being prepared for display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis

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  • Title: Technicians install the eyelid and heat shield on one of space shuttle Discovery's replica shuttle main engines.
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
  • Owner: KSC
  • Album: cbabir
  • About Title: To help you find images you’re searching for, previously untitled images have been labelled automatically based on their description

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