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An Iowa Northern locomotive contracted by Goodloe Transportation of Chicago, carrying the first of two pathfinders, or test versions, of solid rocket booster segments for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, continues along the railroad tracks past the Vehicle Assembly Building and on to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Inside the RPSF, the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program and industry partners will conduct a series of lifts, moves and stacking operations using the booster segments, which are inert, to prepare for Exploration Mission-1, deep-space missions and the journey to Mars