CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At C Spray Glass Blasting of Cocoa Beach, Fla., a worker completes the commemorative plaque to mark space shuttle Endeavour’s wheel stop location. The special plaque will be permanently mounted at the Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, runway edge at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to commemorate Endeavour’s final space shuttle landing. Endeavour completed the STS-134 mission by landing at the SLF on June 1, 2011, at 2:35 a.m. EDT. Endeavour flew 25 missions, completed 4,671 orbits of the Earth, traveled more than 122 million miles and spent 299 days in space. Endeavour carried 173 astronauts to space. Photo credit: NASA/Lorne Mathre
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date June 26, 2012