Video: Space shuttle Endeavour touches down in LA The 75-ton winged spaceship, ferried by a modified Boeing 747, landed at Los Angeles International Airport after hop-scotching across the country from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and flying a victory lap over California. Nasa retired Endeavour and the rest of its shuttle fleet last year after completing the U.S. portion of the $100 billion International Space Station, a permanently staffed research complex orbiting 250 miles above Earth. The arrival at Edwards was a homecoming of sorts for the California-made spacecraft, which was built as a replacement for Challenger, the shuttle lost in a 1986 launch accident that killed seven astronauts. Endeavour went on to fly 25 missions, including 12 to help construct and outfit the space station, and logged nearly 123 million miles (198 million km) in flight during 4,671 orbits. Endeavour will undergo preparations to be moved through city streets to its new home at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles, where the shuttle will be put on public display starting October 30.