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Friday for what has been named Mission 26: the two-day crawl. LOS ANGELES Space shuttle Endeavours final flight plan and road trip map were revealed on Wednesday (Aug. The orbiters were built at a facility in Palmdale, Calif., and occasionally returned for service overhauls during NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. LOS ANGELES The space shuttle Endeavour rolled out of Los Angeles International Airport around 2 a.m. Endeavour's farewell tour 48 photosĮndeavour is NASA's youngest space shuttle and is the only orbiter to go on public display in California, the birthplace of the U.S. The spacecraft also paid tribute to NASA with fly-overs of the space agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and Vandenberg Air Force Base, which has long served as a launch site for NASA and military satellites. The move, which will begin hours before dawn on Friday morning (Oct. Todays flight marks the final scheduled ferry flight of the Space Shuttle Program. 21, 2012 in Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. A spectator takes a photo of the Space Shuttle Endavour as it flies on top of a modified 747 jumbo jet over the Golden Gate Bridge. 8), the mated segments for the exhibits starboard (or right side) solid rocket booster (SRB) were hoisted into place atop an aft skirt inside the work site for the science. The two-day, 12-mile (19 kilometer) journey follows Endeavours delivery to L.A. The space shuttle Endeavour, atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, lands at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday, Sept. The pair flew over several California sites including the state capital of Sacramento, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, and Disneyland. All rights reserved.(CBS News) Space Shuttle Endeavour finished its tour of California Friday afternoon, landing at Los Angeles International Airport after a four-day cross-country journey than began in Florida and will end in October with a street parade through Los Angeles to the California Science Center.Įndeavour's final flight was on the back of NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a Boeing 747 specially modified to support the spacecraft's weight. The retired NASA space shuttle Endeavour has been carefully hoisted into place at a Los Angeles science museum where it will be displayed as if it is about to blast off. See for coverage of the delivery and display of NASA's space shuttles.įollow collectSPACE on Facebook and Twitter collectSPACE and editor Robert Pearlman robertpearlman. To capture this event, presents a photo gallery or more than 150 images showing Endeavour from the start to finish of its three-day, 12-mile "Mission 26." The spectators who came out were not just there to witness Endeavour's road trip, but also record it with just about every type of image recording device imaginable, from cell phone to Hollywood 3D camera. The final journey of space shuttle Endeavour may have been its shortest mission, but it also was very likely its most documented. WASHINGTON Space shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop NASA’s modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), will make the final ferry flight of the Space Shuttle Program era when it departs Monday, Sept. By 2017, the science center intends to mount Endeavour with a pair of rocket boosters and a replica external tank to recreate how the shuttle looked on the launch pad.
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The CSC plans to open the Oschin pavilion to public visitors on Oct. Space shuttle Endeavour is seen approaching the California Science Center at the end of its three-day, 12-mile (19 km) "Mission 26" road trip, Oct.