Cape canaveral, Florida (ap) - NASA's space shuttle baby leave home - for good.
In the sunrise (Monday), endeavour will leave the museum in California's Kennedy space center, a two-day stay in Houston, mission control, astronauts fly to the ship replacement lost challenger.
NASA's three retired space shuttle "forge ahead" is the second head a museum. Most young space shuttle will four-day visit on top of the jumbo jet, in California science center to Los Angeles. Find landing in Virginia smithsonian display hangar, last spring. Atlantis will remain in the Kennedy.
Before taking off the shuttle landing runway on Monday morning, striving and its bearing inkjet fly low the Kennedy and cape canaveral beach, and then went to the west along the gulf of Mexico to the NASA point. To swoop over Stan nice space center space shuttle booster rocket for the New Orleans, Mississippi, and Michoud assembly plant.
The next station: the NASA Johnson space center in Houston nearby ella anfield's spirit.
Endeavour will remain in the ellington until Wednesday morning, make the space center staff can see shuttle close to. The rockets bid for the bus; Loss from still there are a number of people. NASA chose New York city shuttle prototype enterprise, is to give up, to make room for the winner by the smithsonian found.
NASA's other two bus in the 30 years of plan, challenger and Columbia, in flight process is destroyed, 14 astronaut, were killed.
Spurt was established to replace the challenger, its flight debut in 1992, six years later launch accident. In may and June 2011 to the next to last a space shuttle mission.
In the 25 task period, "progressive" record 299 days space, circling the earth 4671 times. In total the planets mileage: 122800000 miles.
In the last Wednesday from Houston, "progressive" will stop in el paso, Texas, biggs army airport for fuel, then low bridge in new Mexico white test equipment, this for decades as emergency shuttle landing site. Then, will travel to the U.S. space agency dryden flight research center at Edwards air force base in California, another old space shuttle landing site.
On Thursday, endeavour will fly to northern California Ames research center of the mountain scenery. NASA plans to Los Angeles and late morning arrived at Los Angeles international airport before a low flying over the San Francisco, Sacramento and other major cities.
NASA mother Thursday for security reasons, all these overpass the exact time. Officials warned that such weather need cooperation, let such a full and busy schedule.
The space shuttle will make the final 12 kilometers distances, and from the airport to California science center, through the city streets, on October 12 to 13. October 30, began to show.
Atlantis road trip - from the Kennedy space center hangar visitors complex - is scheduled for November 2.
NASA shuttle retirement, last year in the White House direction, in order to focus more time and money on travel beyond the earth's orbit, the asteroids, and then in the next few decades Mars.




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