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Shuttle Endeavour completes its final mission (13 images)

NASA's space shuttle "Endeavour" returns home to Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center at 2:35 am on June 1, 2011. Endeavour is completing its twenty fifth and final mission, STS 134, for NASA's shuttle program. Endeavour and her six person crew flew to the International Space Station, dropping off supplies as well as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer during its sixteen day mission.



NASA's space shuttle "Endeavour" returns home to Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center at 2:35 am on June 1, 2011. Endeavour is completing its twenty fifth and final mission, STS 134, for NASA's shuttle program. Endeavour and her six person crew flew to the International Space Station, dropping off supplies as well as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer during its sixteen day mission. .UPI/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell
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This NASA image taken on May 30, 2011 by an astronaut on board Space Shuttle Endeavour shows the International Space Station after Endeavour undocked. Endeavour is in the final days of NASA mission STS-134 and is slated to return to Earth on June 1, 2011. UPI/NASA
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This NASA image taken May 28, 201 by a crew member on board the International Space Station shows the port wing of the docked Space Shuttle Endeavour back dropped by Earth's atmosphere and a starry sky just. Spaec Shuttle Endeavour and her 13 man crew are in the finals days of NASA service mission STS-134. Endeavour is scheduled to return to Earth for the last time on June 1, 2011. UPI/NASA
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A portion of the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this image photographed by a spacewalker during the STS-134 mission's fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA) on May 27, 2011. The blackness of space and Earth's horizon provide the backdrop for the scene. This is the last planned spacewalk for space shuttle crew members. UPI/NASA
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