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Endeavour’s Last Homecoming
NASA – Xenon lights illuminate space shuttle Endeavour’s unfurled drag chute as the vehicle rolls to a stop on the Shuttle Landing Facility’s Runway 15 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. STS-134 was the 25th and final flight for Endeavour, which has spent 299 days in space, orbited Earth 4,671 times and traveled 122,883,151 miles. June 1, 2011 Image credit: NASA/Kenny Allen
Rolling Out on Runway 15
NASA – Xenon lights help lead space shuttle Endeavour home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Endeavour landed for the final time on the Shuttle Landing Facility’s Runway 15, marking the 24th night landing of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Image credit: NASA/Tom Farrar and Tony Gray
By the Dawn’s Early Light
NASA – In the early morning hours after landing, space shuttle Endeavour begins its move from the Shuttle Landing Facility to Orbiter Processing Facility-1. Once inside the processing facility, Endeavour will be prepared for future public display. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
Leaving the Runway
NASA – A “towback” vehicle slowly pulls shuttle Endeavour from the Shuttle Landing Facility to Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A purge unit that pumps conditioned air into a shuttle after landing is connected to Endeavour’s aft end. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
Back to the Hangar
NASA – Still attached to a purge unit that pumps conditioned air into a shuttle after landing, space shuttle Endeavour is pulled into Orbiter Processing Facility-1. Endeavour’s final return from space completed the 16-day, 6.5-million-mile STS-134 mission. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
Teperdexrian/Daily Mail – It sounds like something out of science fiction – a huge swathe of the moon covered with solar panels to beam captured energy back to Earth.
