September 24, 2012
From Endeavour’s Last Flight, one of 38 photos + 4. The Space Shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop NASA’s modified Boeing 747, flies above Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles on its final flight, on September 21, 2012. The retired space shuttle spent its last day in the air on a 5-hour flyover before landing at the Los Angeles International Airport, where it will stay for a few weeks before taking a slow-speed land journey across town through neighborhoods to its final museum home, the California Space Center. (Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)

From Endeavour’s Last Flight, one of 38 photos + 4. The Space Shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop NASA’s modified Boeing 747, flies above Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles on its final flight, on September 21, 2012. The retired space shuttle spent its last day in the air on a 5-hour flyover before landing at the Los Angeles International Airport, where it will stay for a few weeks before taking a slow-speed land journey across town through neighborhoods to its final museum home, the California Space Center. (Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)

June 7, 2012
From Shuttles Sail to Their New Homes, one of 22 photos. Space Shuttle Enterprise is carried by barge underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, on June 3, 2012. Enterprise was on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it will put on permanent display. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

From Shuttles Sail to Their New Homes, one of 22 photos. Space Shuttle Enterprise is carried by barge underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, on June 3, 2012. Enterprise was on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it will put on permanent display. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images)