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Endeavour lands in LA piggybacked on a 747 aircraft, and gets ready for its last journey (VIDEO)

Los Angeles, USA - The final destination is the California Science Center

For a spacecraft which covered almost 200 million km, the last journey will be a piece of cake, even if the 19 km from Los Angeles Airport, where the Space Shuttle Endeavour is currently located, to the California Space Center, where the shuttle will be displayed soon, will be transported really slowly, both for its size and to give people a chance to cherish it once again, after its last flight which...

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Rome, Italy, 09/24/2012 16:03
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