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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — In the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, a Hyster fork lift (left) holding the first Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) maneuvers into position number 1 (upper chamber) behind Atlantis for installation. Overall, an SSME weighs approximately 7,000 pounds. Three engines provide the thrust, along with the two Solid Rocket Boosters, for liftoff. After about 2 minutes, the two boosters are spent and are separated from the external tank.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-0534. NASA/KSC, 2005-04-01. Public domain. ID: 05pd0534.
