Reel:🚀 Space Shuttle Endeavour Takes to the Skies One Last Time! In this historic footage, Space Shuttle Endeavour begins its final journey on September 19, 2012, leaving NASA’s Kennedy Space Center mounted on a modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. This special ferry flight carried Endeavour across the United States all the way to Los Angeles, where it would become a museum icon for millions to see. This moment marked the end of an era — the last time a space shuttle ever soared above

10 years ago today NASA's space shuttle Endeavour took its last flight. 🚀 ✈️ People all over California watched the skies in hopes of catching a glimpse of space shuttle Endeavour as the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft as it ferried Endeavour to Los Angeles on Sept. 21, 2012. On its final flight to the California Science Center, Endeavour was escorted by a combination of F/A-18s and an F-15 from NASA Armstrong. More: https://go.nasa.gov/3SjDl0a | NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center

On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first flight. Discover more space history 👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/BUGgvz Endeavour was the fifth and last space shuttle that was ever built, and STS-49 was the first of 25 missions to fly on it. The purpose of this mission was to retrieve a satellite called Intelsat 603, which had failed to reach the right orbit after problems with its launch two years earlier. Three of the six astronauts had to go on a spacewalk together to f