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In 2012 SpaceFlight Insider's Founder, Jason Rhian was provided with a tour of the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility (SSMEPF) located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Several of the engines were being prepared for transport for testing and evaluation. NASA and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne spoke with Rhian about the engines and how they were planned for use on the space agency's new super heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.