Judging from Commander Kelly's comments post-landing, he's not accepting it either. He made a point of saying Endeavour is in great shape and could fly more missions but must be retired.
Here in Los Angeles, the news story was about how Endeavour will reside at the Science Museum near the Coliseum.
The evening news actually featured the progress of the shuttle post-de orbit burn as it approached Florida and then showed a minute and a half of the landing... LIVE... although I suspect delayed a few seconds.
As a local radio host said, "We can all exhale now." That is always the feeling. Congratulations STS-134 crew and welcome home.
We are putting trees in tree museums and space shuttles in space museums. We are paving paradise. Obama hates jobs.