OTD…Final launch of Endeavour five years ago

#OTD in 2012…Shuttle reaches retirement roost in sunny SoCal

The mission to the orbiting outpost featured three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut who will spend roughly 180 days on the space station. Liftoff occurred at 10:53 p.m. EST (0353 UTC) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.