Rick Searfoss speaks to guests at Space Florida's Exploration Park the shuttle Atlantis pauses during its journey to the Kennedy Visitor Complex.

Former space shuttle astronaut Rick Searfoss, now representing XCOR Aerospace, speaks to guests at Space Florida's Exploration Park where the space shuttle Atlantis pauses during its 10-mile journey to the Kennedy Visitor Complex.

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/Jim Grossmann