Over the course of its two decades in service, Endeavour completed 25 missions. The shuttle is expected to be rolled out of the airport on Oct. 21.įrom the airport, Endeavour will travel 12 miles on surface streets, through the heart of Los Angeles, to its final home, the California Science Center. The above video, captured by NASA, shows Endeavour on the last leg of its airborne tour, eventually touching down safely on the LAX tarmac around 1 p.m. Thousands of people across the state gathered to skygaze and snap photos. ( PHOTOS: Unprecedented Image of Space Shuttle Released)Įn route to Los Angeles, Endeavour’s aerial tour zigzagged over California - from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to Sacramento, the state capital. Piggybacked on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, the spacecraft soared over the Hollywood Hills, the skyscrapers of downtown L.A., City Hall, and in a particularly photo-worthy moment, past the iconic white Hollywood sign. In July, NASA's prototype shuttle Enterprise (which never flew in space, but was pivotal for early landing tests) went on public display in New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.Follow before landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday to begin its final journey into retirement, the space shuttle Endeavour glided majestically over southern California, touring the sights and offering city residents a thrilling view. Udvar-Hazy Center annex in Chantilly, Va. In April, the shuttle Discovery went on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's Stephen F. In all, the shuttle launched 25 space missions and flew nearly 123 million miles during its spaceflight career.Įndeavour is the third of four space shuttles heading to museums this year. Endeavour made its first flight in 1992 and was retired in June 2011 after completing its final mission. NASA built Endeavour as a replacement for the orbiter lost in the tragic Challenger shuttle disaster of January 1986, which killed seven astronauts. The orbiters were built at a facility in Palmdale, Calif., and occasionally returned for service overhauls during NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. Then, it will be time for Endeavour's grand Los Angeles arrival.Įndeavour is NASA's youngest space shuttle and is the only orbiter to go on public display in California, the birthplace of the U.S. Next, Endeavour turns south to soar over NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, and later Vandenberg Air Force Base, which has long served as a launch site for NASA and Air Force satellites. PDT, watch for Endeavour from viewing locations that include the Bay Area Discovery Museum, Chabot Space and Science Center, the California State Capitol, Exploratorium, Lawrence Hall of Science and Monterey Bay Aquarium," NASA officials said in an announcement Thursday. Then the shuttle will head to the Bay Area.
The latter tag refers to Endeavour's vehicle number designation.Īfter leaving Dryden and Edwards Air Force Base, Endeavour and its Shuttle Carrier Aircraft will head north to make early-morning flyovers of Sacramento, California's capitol city. NASA is also encouraging the public to share their shuttle Endeavour viewing experiences by posting messages and photos on the social networking website Twitter using the hashtags #spottheshuttle and #OV105. You can watch the shuttle's takeoff online here:
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The space agency will broadcast the shuttle's takeoff live on its NASA TV channel and via a webcast, which begins at 8 a.m. Shuttle fans across the country and around the world can tune into NASA's broadcast to watch Endeavour's departure from Dryden and Edwards.
The shuttle, riding piggyback on a modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, will make low flyovers over Edwards - home of NASA's first shuttle landings - and NASA's nearby Dryden Flight Research Center. Today, Endeavour will begin its state-wide flyover with a takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California at about 8:15 a.m. 19) and made a stopover in Houston (home of NASA's Johnson Space Center, astronaut corps and mission control rooms) before completing its journey west. The shuttle left Florida on Wednesday (Sept. Endeavour's historic California aerial tour will cap a three-day trip from its homeport at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Los Angeles, where the orbiter will ultimately become a museum showpiece at the California Science Center.
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