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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis appears to smile for the camera as it passes a crowd gathered near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Atlantis is traveling down the NASA Causeway, nearing the end of its 10-mile journey from Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building to its new home. As part of transition and retirement of the Space Shuttle Program, Atlantis will be displayed in a new exhibit hall at Kennedy's visitor complex beginning in the summer of 2013. Over the course of its 26-year career, Atlantis traveled 125,935,769 miles, completing 33 missions during 307 days in space. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett