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Space shuttle Endeavour atop a modified jumbo jet makes its departure from the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour will make a stop in Houston before heading to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.(AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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Space shuttle Discovery, atop a Boeing 747 carrier jet, departs from the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its way to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum facility near Washington Dulles International Airport. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Former Sen. John Glenn (left) and Scott Carpenter, the last surviving Mercury astronauts, speak at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., during an event marking the 50th anniversary of Mr. Glenn's launch into orbit. (AP Photo/Michael Brown)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS The space shuttle Atlantis astronauts [from left] mission specialists Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, pilot Doug Hurley and commander Chris Ferguson acknowledge well-wishers after leaving the operations and checkout building en route to the launching pad at the Kennedy Space Center on July 8 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis was the 135th and final space shuttle launch for NASA.

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NASA VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Technicians work on the GRAIL booster at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Aug. 25. It is scheduled to launch on Thursday.

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Atlantis is towed to the Orbitor Processing facility as hundreds of NASA employees gather at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday. The landing of Atlantis marks the end of the 30-year program. (Associated Press)

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Kenny Fisher (right) takes a photograph as his sister, Ashley (left), looks over his shoulder as they wait at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to watch space shuttle Atlantis land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 21, 2011. The landing of the spacecraft brings the shuttle program to an end. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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** FILE ** A payload canister named "Raffello," seen here in early June at the Space Station Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., is on board the space shuttle Atlantis with a cargo of supplies. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Old friends, Denise McCabe, of Vero Beach, Fla., center left and Cheryl Giesa, or Northville, Mich., cheer as they watch the Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-135, launch from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center from the roadside in Titusville, Fla., seven miles away, to begin the final mission of the Space Shuttle program, Friday, July 8, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)

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Hundreds of thousands of people watched from the roadside in Titusville, Fla., on Friday, July 8, 2011, as the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. Some claimed a spot the night before and slept in their vehicles while awaiting the launch. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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Denise McCabe (left center) of Vero Beach, Fla., and Cheryl Giesa (in white shirt) of Northville, Mich., cheer on Friday, July 8, 2011, as they watch from the roadside in Titusville, Fla., as the space shuttle Atlantis launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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Dana Frentz (left) of Raleigh, N.C., sleeps on Friday, July 8, 2011, next to Bryan DuBray (center) and his mother, Charlotte DuBray, both of Houston, along the roadside in Titusville, Fla., while waiting to watch the space shuttle Atlantis launch from the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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Eli Villaverde (right) of Orlando, Fla., sells parking spots on Friday, July 8, 2011, at his family's property in Titusville, Fla., about seven miles from the Kennedy Space Center, where the space shuttle Atlantis launched that morning. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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Kayn Clark (center), 10, of Clearwater, Fla., and his parents, Daniel and Brandi Clark, watch from the roadside on Friday, July 8, 2011, as the space shuttle Atlantis launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, about seven miles away. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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Donnie Green of Sanford, Fla., sells T-shirts on Friday, July 8, 2011, to drivers and passengers stuck in traffic on Route 1 in Titusville, Fla., following the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)