( CNN ) -- NASA says bad weather has forced it to put off the piggyback flight of the space shuttle Endeavour to California , where the now-retired spacecraft will be put on display . The space agency announced Sunday that it has pushed back the start of the multi-day flight until Tuesday , a day later than planned . Storms forecast over the Southeast prompted the delay , NASA said in a statement announcing the postponement . NASA still hopes to deliver Endeavour , the baby of the shuttle fleet , to Los Angeles by Thursday , the agency said . The spacecraft and its Boeing 747 carrier are slated to make several stops and low-level flyovers along the route , with overnight stops in Houston -- home to the mission control center for the U.S. manned space program -- and at NASA 's Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California . Dryden is located at Edwards Air Force Base , the landing site for the first shuttle missions . The jet-shuttle combo will make low-altitude passes over NASA 's Stennis Space Center on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the agency 's Michoud Assembly plant near New Orleans , where the shuttles ' external fuel tanks were built ; over the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico , a last-resort landing site where shuttle pilots trained ; and over San Francisco , Sacramento and other northern California sites . Endeavor is scheduled to be on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles by late October . Built as a replacement for the ill-fated shuttle Challenger , it made 25 flights into space between 1992 and 2011 . The other two surviving orbiters , Discovery and Atlantis , are also being put on display at museums . Atlantis will be at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral , Florida ; Discovery at the Smithsonian Institution 's National Air and Space Museum annex in Virginia .
Forecasts storms push Endeavour 's final flight back a day . The shuttle is scheduled to launch at 8:45 a.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle made 25 space flights between 1992 and 2011 .