Final external fuel tank...

for Space Shuttle Endeavour, the last shuttle ever to fly, has been delivered to Cape Kennedy (click to enlarge).   The last shuttle mission (STS-134) is scheduled to launch in February 2011 and will carry spare parts to the International Space Station (ISS).  Thereafter, US astronauts will have to hitch a lift to the ISS from the Russian Space Agency.

Here's a photogallery that documents this depressing event, the beginning of the end of US manned spaceflight for the foreseeable future.