OTD…Final launch of Endeavour five years ago

#OTD in 2002…Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station’s truss backbone

A heavy-duty crane towering over launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in recent weeks has removed several large sections of a disused structure once needed to install satellites and space station modules into space shuttle cargo bays.

America’s final space shuttle arrives at the International Space Station to deliver one last massive load of goods and provisions.