Commemorating 10 Years Since OV-105's Final Space Shuttle Mission...

NASA / Tony Gray and Tom Farrar

On this day in 2011, Endeavour launched on her final space shuttle flight, STS-134—which delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station (ISS). Endeavour, officially designated Orbiter Vehicle (OV)-105, would remain in low-Earth orbit for a little over 15 days...before ending her storied, 19-year career on Runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. Endeavour's career included such highlights as the first three-man extra-vehicular activity (on OV-105's maiden voyage, STS-49, in 1992), the first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (on STS-61, in 1993) and the first assembly flight to the ISS (on STS-88, in 1998). Ultimately, Endeavour would have 25 missions under her belt before eventually making her way to her final retirement home at Los Angeles' California Science Center in 2012. Ad astra.