Space Shuttle Endeavour landed at its home base in Florida early Wednesday, capping a 16-day mission to deliver a premier science experiment to the International Space Station on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight. Your landing ends a vibrant legacy for this amazing vehicle that will be remembered for a long time. Welcome home, Endeavour, astronaut Barry Wilmore radiated to Kelly from NASA's Mission Control in Houston.
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Shuttle Endeavour returns after final missionThe space shuttle Endeavour touched down at its Florida home base early on Wednesday, capping a 16-day mission to deliver a premier science experiment to the International Space Station on NASA&rsquo;s next-to-last shuttle flight.&ldquo;Your landing ends a vibrant legacy for this amazing vehicle that will long be remembered. Welcome home, Endeavour,&rdquo; astronaut Barry Wilmore radioed to Kelly from NASA&rsquo;s Mission Control in Houston.&ldquo;It really is an incredible ship,&rdquo; Commander Scott Kelly replied. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s sad to see her land for the last time but she really has a great legacy.&rdquo;Photo: Space Shuttle Endeavour is escorted back to a storage building following it&rsquo;s last mission before being retired, at Kennedy Space Center, on June 1, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images)
