Shuttle Enterprise, the first orbiter built, will move from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. Space Shuttle Enterprise was never flown into space. It was used and flown during unpowered drop tests at Edwards Air Force Base.

Shuttle Discovery will call the Udvar-Hazy Center home now that it has retired after completing its 39th mission in March.

Shuttle Endeavour is preparing for its final flight at the end of the month. Once that mission is complete, Endeavour will go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to fly the last planned shuttle mission in June. Once retired, like so many humans, it will spend its golden years in Florida on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

NASA also announced that hundreds of shuttle artifacts have been allocated to museums and education institutions:

Various shuttle simulators for the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum of McMinnville, Ore., and Texas A&M's Aerospace Engineering Department

Full fuselage trainer for the Museum of Flight in Seattle

Nose cap assembly and crew compartment trainer for the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio

Flight deck pilot and commander seats for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston

Orbital maneuvering system engines for the U.S. Space and Rocket Center of Huntsville, Ala., National Air and Space Museum in Washington, and Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum

Educators and interested students, take note that NASA also is offering shuttle heat shield tiles to schools and universities that want to share technology and a piece of space history with their students.

Schools can request a tile at:

http://gsaxcess.gov/NASAWel.htm

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