KSC-2012-2749

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – United Space Alliance test conductors monitor the Firing Room 4 Master Console in the Launch Control Center as operations to power down space shuttle Endeavour for the final time are under way in Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left are Dave Martin, Gary Lewis, Ethan Waldron, and John Robb. The overall health and status of the shuttle’s Launch Processing System is overseen and controlled from the Master Console. Endeavour is being prepared for public display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Its ferry flight to California is targeted for mid-September. Endeavour was the last space shuttle added to NASA’s orbiter fleet. Over the course of its 19-year career, Endeavour spent 299 days in space during 25 missions. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs

Date: 2012-05-11
Collection: KSC
Archive: NASA Image and Video Library
Type: photograph