Obama to attend last Endeavour launch

President Obama will attend the final launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, according to media reports Wednesday.
 
Obama, who will already be in Florida for a commencement address at Miami Dade College on April 29, will attend the launch with the first family, the paper said. He will be the first sitting president to attend a launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida since Bill Clinton in 1998.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot in the head in a Jan. 8 assassination attempt, is also scheduled to attend the Endeavour launch.
 
Giffords will watch her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, take flight on the space shuttle if her health allows, aides in her office have said. 

Kelly recently told Newsweek that Giffords's first public appearance is months, not weeks, away. If she attends the launch, Giffords will probably not appear in public, according to Newsweek.

"We are very happy that Pres. Obama is coming to Mark's launch!" Giffords's staff tweeted Wednesday. "This historic mission will be #Endeavour's final flight."

The launch will mark the penultimate space flight of the Space Shuttle program.
 
NASA has announced that Endeavour will be displayed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles upon returning from its final flight. 

This article was updated at 11:35 p.m.

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