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Shuttle Endeavour Set for Final Flight from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday
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UPDATED 5 P.M. SUNDAY -- Space Coast Floridians may get one last chance to see NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour lift off from Cape Canaveral.
The retired shuttle, attached Friday to the top of a Boeing 747 for a cross-country trip, was set to depart Monday morning until an unfavorable weather forecast forced a postponement until Tuesday, Sept. 18.
Space shuttle Endeavour is lowered onto the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/ Kim Shiflett
The final shuttle built, Endeavour is heading to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, stopping for a couple of days at Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The flight is expected to emulate the January travel of the shuttle Enterprise, which conducted a low flyover of Kennedy Space Center and the beaches around the Cape before heading to New York for display at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum.
Endeavour made 25 missions between May 1992 and May 2011,
The shuttle Discovery is to be put on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum. The shuttle Atlantis is to remain in the Visitor Complex at Kennedy Space Center
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