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An Iowa Northern locomotive contracted by Goodloe Transportation of Chicago, carrying the second of two pathfinders, or test versions, of solid rocket booster segments for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, continues along the railroad tracks at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The pathfinder booster segment, which is inert, will be delivered to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF). Both pathfinder segments arrived at Kennedy from Orbital ATK in Utah. Inside the RPSF, the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program and Jacobs Engineering, on the Test and Operations Support Contract, will conduct a series of lifts, moves and stacking operations using the booster segments to prepare for Exploration Mission-1, deep-space missions and the journey to Mars