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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA astronaut Kay Hire walks beside space shuttle Endeavour as it is towed to the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft will be lifted in the gantry-like Mate-Demate Device and placed atop NASA's modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the final ferry flight of the Space Shuttle Program. Endeavour will be placed on permanent public display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett