About four hours after landing, space shuttle Endeavour was towed several miles back its processing hangar at the Kennedy Space Center. After arriving in the Orbiter Processing Facility, Endeavour will be readied for its next mission in February. Spaceflight Now was there to take these photos.

Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

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