LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour took off Friday morning on a sightseeing tour of California, the last aerial hurrah before retiring to a Los Angeles museum....
Space Shuttle Endeavour Takes To California Skies
By ALICIA CHANG, Associated Press
Fri, 09/21/2012 - 8:39am
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