The shuttle Endeavour has maintained a heading through the streets of Los Angeles toward its retirement home at a museum.

The space shuttle Endeavour has landed in California where it will spend its retirement in a Los Angeles museum.

A space shuttle took flight for the next-to-last time as US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, still recovering from a gunshot wound and hidden from public view, watched her astronaut husband rocket through the clouds in a deafening roar.