The positioning had to be precise. The shuttle's nose was raised 200 feet into the night sky so that the rudder could clear 80 feet of space. Endeavour was then turned 17 degrees clockwise to ...

NASA has selected a yet-to-be-named Space Shuttle to move to Houston, conceding to a long-running bid by Texas senators to ...

The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency’s retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be ...

The space shuttle Endeavour was the fifth and final operational shuttle to be built. Its maiden mission, STS-49, launched in May 1992, and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, began in May 2011.

Space Shuttle Endeavour is lifted into the site of the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on Jan. 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Ashley Landis / AP ...

Endeavour’s Last Journey, Through Contentious Space Space shuttle Endeavour traveled 122,883,151 miles in 25 missions, but its final 12 miles in Los Angeles may prove to be its most difficult.