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Recycling, NASA-style
NASA – All six Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne space shuttle main engines from Endeavour‘s STS-134 and Atlantis’ STS-135 missions sit in test cells inside the Engine Shop at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. For the first time, all 15 shuttle main engines are in the shop at the same time, being prepped for shipment to NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where they are being repurposed for use on NASA’s next generation heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis

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STS-134 Crew at the California Science Center
NASA – On Oct. 11, 2011, NASA officially transferred title and ownership of space shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center during a ceremony at the center in Los Angeles. The transfer is the first step towards the Center receiving Endeavour in the 2012. The crew of STS-134, Endeavour’s last crew attended the ceremony on Tuesday. From left to right are Mike Fincke, STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly, Drew Feustel, California Science Center President Jeff Rudolph and Greg Johnson. Image Credit: California Science Center/Leroy Hamilton (Used by permission)