Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis come nose to nose

Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis come nose to nose

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NASA's space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis switched locations today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA photo) NASA's space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis switched locations today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA photo)
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Retired space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis switched places at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday. The NASA orbiters came nose-to-nose for the last time.

Crews moved Endeavour from Orbiter Processing Facility 2 to the Vehicle Assembly Building where it will be temporarily stored until it begins its journey to California, NASA said.

Endeavour is set to fly piggy-back across country to Los Angeles International Airport in September. Then in mid-October it will be moved to the California Science Center for permanent display, NASA said.

In the meantime, Atlantis will be prepared for its move to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in November, the space agency said. The shuttle display will open to the public in July 2013.

Shuttle Discovery is already on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum annex in northern Virginia.

Shuttle Enterprise, a prototype that never flew into space, is on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.

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