The final flight, ever, for a Space Shuttle — at least until it’s taken out of mothballs to stop the asteroid — just happened over BRAD BLOG World News Headquarters here in Hollywood! Thanks, guys! USA! USA! USA!
Endeavour actually took two passes over us, piggy-backed on its NASA 747 with a two plane escort, as it took the Shuttle program’s final victory lap in the air over Los Angeles before touching down for the last time ever at LAX.
It will soon take its final road trip to its new and final home (until the asteroid) at the California Science Center. That last trip will take place across 12 miles of surface streets here in Los Angeles, where some 400 trees must be taken out to make room for the trip. The Science Center “promises to plant 1,000 new trees in place of those taken down,” according to Reuters.
UPDATE: Naturally, you get full BRAD BLOG team coverage today, as our own Desi Doyen, of the Green News Report, from a different vantage point, gets a great still shot of Endeavour flying between Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood sign…
Desi got three flyovers from her vantage point. Here’s a shot from the closest one…
Whooo, my kid’s boyfriend is from Tuscon and hey they seem to be decent folks from there…I mean hey, have yinz folks found out just what a truly progressive community exists beyond the tv screen? Ya gotta meet people for your self before you take some tv fools word …right?
Well here ya go, something I miss…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pWzsmEt2JE
Happy Moons.
Thanks for posting this. Today I watched 1962 NASA documentary film about Friendship 7 launch on 20th February 1962. I recommend you to watch this historic NASA documentary film, if you did n’t watch yet.
I landed at LAX yesterday and was surprised to catch a glimpse of the Space Shuttle on the tarmac as we landed.
How many movies use an actual Space Shuttle? I caught this for the first time only 26 years late:
‘SPACECAMP’ 1986 did not have permission to use a real shuttle, but it was still a blast.
The ‘space teacher’ and her camp class blast off!
Whoops! Actually – forced to launch or a catastrophe was imminent.