The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday at 2:35 a.m. ET. STS-134, in which it delivered an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station, was the shuttle's final mission.
But astronauts aboard the International Space Station took a stunning parting shot on May 28, just before Endeavour detached from the space station one last time.
As , what's amazing about this photo is that the racing Earth below puts the speed at which the shuttle and space station move in perspective. They orbit Earth once every 90 minutes:
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whose husband Mark Kelley is commanding the mission, that she would not travel to Florida for the landing. Giffords, who was seriously injured during a shooting rampage in Arizona, travelled to Florida to watch Endeavour's launch.
Also of note, is that at 8 p.m. ET today, the space shuttle Atlantis will be rolled out to its launch pad. The scheduled July 8 launch will be the last of the 30-year space shuttle program.
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