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After touching down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's Guppy aircraft exited the runway onto the tarmac near the Landing Aids Control Building. The Orion heat shield ground test article, secured in a shipping container, will be loaded into the aircraft for transportation to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company near Denver, Colorado. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion