On Friday, the space shuttle Endeavour made one last flight aboard the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flying from Edwards Air Force Base and making a tour of California before landing in Los Angeles en route to her final resting place at the California Science Center. DVICE was at NASA's Ames Research Center taking pictures of the flyby, and we've also picked out a few of our favorite images from elsewhere along Endeavour's journey.

NASA's space shuttles are usually busy doing something cool for photographers. (Even in retirement, they know how to put on a show.) This picture, though, is cool in a very weird way: Space Shuttle Explorer crossing the Gulf of Mexico. Never heard of Explorer? We forgive you — it's a secret shuttle.

Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when you're putting an old friend to rest. We've seen photos of the Enterprise flying into New York City for its final rest at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum and now there's a time-lapse video of it getting detached from the giant Boeing 747 Carrier Aircraft.

Space Shuttle Discovery, the eldest of NASA's surviving space-worthy orbiters, helped build the ISS and carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. It was brought into service after the tragedies that claimed Challenger and Columbia, and went on to complete 39 missions during which it logged 365 days in space, 5,830 orbits around the Earth and 148,221,675 miles traveled. Discovery completed its final mission on March 9, after STS-133. Below, Discovery goes for one last victory lap before being consigned to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. You'll see Discovery mated to its 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, buzz a few monuments in the nation's capital and finally give travelers at Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. one of the coolest photo ops ever. It's all down below.