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The space shuttle Endeavour sits on launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center, on May 15, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour is scheduled to embark on its final flight to the International Space Station on May 16.
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President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, their daughters Sasha and Malia, and Astronaut Janet Kavandi, walk under the landing gear from beneath the nose of Space Shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday, April 29, 2011.
After touring the devastation left in the wake of Alabama's tornadoes (read the full story here and see the unbelievable images in our slideshow here), President Obama and his family made the most of their visit to Cape Canaveral after the high-profile final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour was delayed due to a problem with a heater in an auxiliary power unit.
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Photographers take pictures of space shuttle Endeavour as it sits atop launch pad 39A after arriving from the Vehicle Assembly Building to prepare for Mission STS-134 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday, March 11. The launch of Endeavour is scheduled for April 19 with Mission Commander Mark Kelly and five other crew members aboard. Kelly is the husband of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in a shooting in Tucson, Arizona in January.
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The external fuel tank for the last scheduled space shuttle flight is transported to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The tank is designated for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission scheduled to launch in Feb., 2011.
“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.” ~ John Schaar, scholar and political theorist who has published articles on patriotism, equality and authority.
Robert Hood says: I find myself surprisingly, deeply sad over the end of NASA’s shuttle program. I’ve always viewed the shuttle as part of what defined “the future”. I even had a shuttle poster on the wall of my bedroom all through my high school years. Seeing the program end reminds me that nothing lasts forever, and the future is just an idea.
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