The Endeavor space shuttle is set to become the second of NASA's three retired shuttles to head to a museum - the California Science Center - when it departs from Kennedy Space Center at sunrise on Monday, September 17, 2012.

Endeavor, the youngest shuttle in NASA's three-shuttle fleet - the other two being Discovery and Atlantis -, is currently sitting in storage at the Vehicle Assembly Building. The space shuttle was built as a substitute to Challenger; and it embarked on its first mission in 1992.

With its next-to-last shuttle mission completed in May and June last year, the Endeavor completed a total of 25 missions; logging 299 days in space. It went around the Earth 4,671 times; with its total off-the-planet mileage being 122.8 million miles.

Since NASA has retired its shuttle fleet, Endeavor will be hauled to the California museum atop modified Boeing 747 jumbojet; and will reach Los Angeles on Thursday, September 20.

During its four-day trip it will make a two-day stopover in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; perform a low flyover of the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico; and then head NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

After its final touchdown at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday, Endeavor will go through the city streets, while on its last and final 12-mile journey from the airport to the California Science Center, on October 12-13; before going on public display from October 30.