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  Rockwell Space Shuttle Orbiter

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• Airline: United States - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• Photo Date: Jun 01, 2011
• Uploaded: Jun 04, 2011
• Other Location - Kennedy Space Center, USA - Florida

Space shuttle "Endeavour" on her death march to Orbiter Processing Facility #02 to be down processed at the end of the STS-134. This picture was taken as she was towed away after her final landing that occurred approx. 4 hours before. The time was needed to make her safe for the technicians to attend to her. In the OPF, the hypegols will be drained. The engines will be removed along with the reaction control pods. After 25 missions, "Endeavour" will also be "mummified" for eternity by having many other important systems removed hence you are seeing her final public moments as a fully functional spacecraft. It will be a museum artifact soon.

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