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nightline: They really take a beating on re-entry, don’t they? Space Shuttle Endeavour is escorted back to a storage building following its last mission before being retired, at Kennedy Space Center, June 01, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Endeavour, completing a 16-day mission to outfit the International Space Station, spent 299 days in space and traveled more than 122.8 million miles during its 25 flights. (Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images) Today in Pictures (And for you gentle readers who pointed out the picture mixup in our original attempt at this post [Internet hard!], thank you!)

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They really take a beating on re-entry, don’t they?

Space Shuttle Endeavour is escorted back to a storage building following its last mission before being retired, at Kennedy Space Center, June 01, 2011, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Endeavour, completing a 16-day mission to outfit the International Space Station, spent 299 days in space and traveled more than 122.8 million miles during its 25 flights. (Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images)

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(And for you gentle readers who pointed out the picture mixup in our original attempt at this post [Internet hard!], thank you!)

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