Shuttle "Endeavour" departs for California Science Center (12 images)

Space shuttle Endeavour, mated atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, is moved back into the Shuttle Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Shuttle Landing Facility, on September 18, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, will fly Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era. UPI//Bill Ingalls/NASA

Space shuttle Endeavour is seen atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility in the early morning hours at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on September 18, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, will fly Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era. UPI//Bill Ingalls/NASA

Space shuttle Endeavour is seen atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on September 17, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, will fly Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era. UPI/Bill Ingalls/NASA

NASA's space shuttle "Endeavour" and the 747 shuttle carrier aircraft, NASA 905, are joined at the "Mate-Demate" Device at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on September 14, 2012. Endeavour will be prepared to depart the Center for the final time on Sep. 17. After flying cross country, Endeavour will arrive Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. .UPI/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell