Space shuttles Endeavour and Discovery meet in a “nose-to-nose” photo opportunity as the vehicles switch locations Aug. 11 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Now in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 (OPF-1), Discovery will go through more preparations for public display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia next spring. Endeavour will be stored in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) until October, when it will be moved into OPF-2 to continue being readied for display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles next summer. (Photo Credit: NASA/Frankie Martin)
End Of An Era
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CAPE CANAVERAL (CBS4) — The space shuttle Discovery and shuttle Endeavour are both on the road to retirement and met nose-to-nose Thursday while trading places at the Kennedy Space Center.
In the rare nose-to-nose encounter, Discovery and Endeavour met outside a shuttle hangar as Discovery was being moved inside and Endeavour was being moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
The switch was necessary for NASA to continue preparing both spaceships for their future homes. Discovery will head next spring to a Virginia hangar belonging to the Smithsonian Institution. Endeavour will then be transported to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Atlantis — which recently completed the last shuttle flight — will remain at Kennedy for public display.
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