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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --  Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, main engine No. 3 (bottom right) is being removed from Space Shuttle Discovery. Above it are (left) the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) engine, the reaction control thrusters (right), and the OMS pod (top). Last week, Shuttle managers determined that the engine was not acceptable for flight because a half-inch-long broken drill bit is lodged in the engine's coolant cavity. Therefore, the engine is being replaced. The Shuttle is expected to roll out to the pad at 2 a.m. Saturday morning, Nov. 13. The STS-103 launch is now targeted for Dec. 6 at 2:37 a.m. EST. The 10-day mission is expected to conclude at KSC on Dec. 16 with a 12:45 a.m. landing KSC-99pp1294

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, main engine No. 3 (bottom right) is being removed from Space Shuttle Discovery. Above it are (left) the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) engine, the reaction control thrusters (right), and the OMS pod (top). Last week, Shuttle managers determined that the engine was not acceptable for flight because a half-inch-long broken drill bit is lodged in the engine's coolant cavity. Therefore, the engine is being replaced. The Shuttle is expected to roll out to the pad at 2 a.m. Saturday morning, Nov. 13. The STS-103 launch is now targeted for Dec. 6 at 2:37 a.m. EST. The 10-day mission is expected to conclude at KSC on Dec. 16 with a 12:45 a.m. landing KSC-99pp1294

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, main engine No. 3 (bottom right) is being removed from Space Shuttle Discovery. Above it are (left) the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) engine, the reaction control thrusters (right), and the OMS pod (top). Last week, Shuttle managers determined that the engine was not acceptable for flight because a half-inch-long broken drill bit is lodged in the engine's coolant cavity. Therefore, the engine is being replaced. The Shuttle is expected to roll out to the pad at 2 a.m. Saturday morning, Nov. 13. The STS-103 launch is now targeted for Dec. 6 at 2:37 a.m. EST. The 10-day mission is expected to conclude at KSC on Dec. 16 with a 12:45 a.m. landing

The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.

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