 This is the space shuttle, yet what you're looking at is more than 600 miles from the launch pad. As shuttles are being ready for takeoff in Florida, this unique space shuttle display is taking shape in Huntsville, Alabama. For decades, the NASA Center here has provided the powerful rockets that thrust our nation into space. The Marshall Space Flight Center is now joining forces with the State of Alabama Space and Rocket Center, the home of U.S. Space Camp, to bring the shuttle to the public. It completes that manned space flight collection that we now have with the shuttle. And you really must walk under this massive vehicle to appreciate the size and the power that that machine can harness when it lifts off the pad. NASA's first contribution to the exhibit was Pathfinder. Although never meant to fly, it was used in the early ground test at NASA's Marshall and Kennedy Centers that cleared the way for the orbiters that follow. Two of Pathfinder's main engine nozzles, however, did actually fly in space. They helped boost the maiden voyage of the Columbia into orbit. Recently, Pathfinder flew just briefly as it was hoisted into place atop this real shuttle external fuel tank. Soon, real solid rocket boosters will complete this one-of-a-kind shuttle exhibit. The beauty of our full-scale space shuttle display is that it gives NASA a place to show these items. We don't have to store these large components away in a warehouse where nobody can see them. The space shuttle plaza in Huntsville serves as a 122-ton monument to the blending of technology and human spirit that's always powered this nation's space program before and undoubtedly always will. In Huntsville, this is Mike Errington reporting. And that is that it completes that manned space flight collection that we now have with the shuttle. And you really must walk under this massive vehicle to appreciate the size and the power that that machine can harness when it lifts off the pad.