Space Shuttle Endeavor Lands In Los Angeles After Final Flight 111
Today the space shuttle Endeavor completed its final ferry flight, landing in Los Angeles, California after leaving Edwards Air Force Base earlier today. The shuttle will now undergo preparations for its journey through the streets of L.A. (at a cost of 400+ trees) to its final resting place at the California Science Center. It'll go on public display October 30. Endeavor spent over 296 days in space throughout 25 missions, comprising 4,671 orbits that added up to over 197 million kilometers of travel. Slashdot's own Kaushik Acharya was at the Griffith Observatory in L.A. for the flyover, and he provided some great pictures of Endeavor's passing.
Saw It (Score:5, Informative)
Nice low-level flight right over Berkeley.
My kid was in class, heard the sound of the low-level flight, and they all saw it right out of the classroom window.
Gee, the end of an era. We could have had so much more. It's good that we have SpaceX doing something sensible about space flight, and NASA funding enough of that, but I think we learned one sad lesson from the Space Program: You can't trust the American electorate and their political representatives to do what's important for the future of the species.
Saw the landing @LAX (Score:4, Informative)
I was @LAX, and saw the fly-overs and the landing there. Great crowd.
Re:Good video of the landing (Score:2, Informative)
This is the same link.. just wrapped with the HTML to make it clickable.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at LAX [youtube.com]
WRONG it wasn't ever in space (Score:0, Informative)
it was in low earth orbit NOT space
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