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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Kennedy Space Center workers and members of the media watch as space shuttle Atlantis is transported along the NASA Causeway on its 10-mile journey from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida to the Kennedy Visitor Complex where it will be put on public display. As part of transition and retirement of the Space Shuttle Program, Atlantis will be displayed 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 during 307 days in space over 33 missions. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/transition. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann