From the left, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, along with STS-135 crew members Sandy Magnus, Rex Walheim, Doug Hurley and Chris Ferguson are on hand as the space shuttle Atlantis moves out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy for its 10-mile trip to the Kennedy Visitor Complex where it will be put on public display.
As part of transition and retirement of the Space Shuttle Program, Atlantis is to be displayed at Kennedy's Visitor Complex beginning in the summer of 2013. Over the course of its 26-year career, Atlantis traveled 125,935,769 miles during 307 days in space over 33 missions. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition Photo credit: NASA/ Kim Shiflett