Space Shuttle Endeavour heading back to Florida

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is on its way back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mounted atop its modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, Endeavour was carried aloft on the first leg of its trip back to Kennedy early Wednesday morning, Dec. 10, from Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of Southern California.

The piggyback combo lifted off runway 04 at Edwards moments after sunrise at 7:07 a.m. It landed at the first intermediate stop, Biggs Army Airfield at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Texas, at 10:21 a.m. MST after a two-hour, 15-minute flight. After refueling and lunch for the crew, the 747-shuttle combo was slated to depart on the second leg of the cross-country ferry flight to its second stop. -- Source Nasa Dryden