Shuttle Atlantis rolled into retirement on Friday (November 2) taking a slow 10-mile (16 km) ride atop a massive platform from the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to the Visitor Center.<br/> <br />Atlantis, which ended the 30-year-old space shuttle program with a final flight last year, will be the star attraction of a new $100 million exhibit at the privately operated Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex adjacent to the NASA spaceport.<br/> <br />Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, which operates the visitors' center, plans to suspend the 154,000-pound (69,853-kg) spaceship from the ceiling with its cargo bay doors open to simulate the vehicle in orbit.<br/> <br />Atlantis, which flew 33 missions, is the third and last operational space shuttle to become a museum piece.
