Florida’s Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll asks questions of her guides during a tour of Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility-1 as they scrutinize the forward end of space shuttle Atlantis. United Space Alliance manager Buddy McKenzie is at left, and Kennedy Director Bob Cabana, at right.
The tour coincided with Carroll’s visit to Kennedy for a meeting with Cabana. Atlantis is being prepared for public display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in 2013. The groundbreaking for Atlantis’ exhibit hall took place in January Atlantis is scheduled to be moved to the visitor complex in November. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann