{"id":9574,"date":"2012-09-21T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T19:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2012-10-14T22:12:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:12:48","slug":"exclusive-video-space-shuttle-endeavor-takes-final-victory-right-above-us-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=9574","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Space Shuttle Endeavour Takes Final Victory Right Above Us in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final flight, ever, for a Space Shuttle &#8212; at least until it&#8217;s taken out of mothballs to stop the asteroid &#8212; just happened over <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> World News Headquarters here in Hollywood! Thanks, guys! USA! USA! USA!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEBpY3JkQwU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Endeavour actually took <i>two<\/i> passes over us, piggy-backed on its NASA 747 with a two plane escort, as it took the Shuttle program&#8217;s final victory lap in the air over Los Angeles before touching down for the last time ever at LAX.<\/p>\n<p>It will soon take its final <i>road<\/i> trip to its new and final home (until the asteroid) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiasciencecenter.org\/Exhibits\/AirAndSpace\/endeavour\/endeavour.php\">at the California Science Center<\/a>. 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 &#8220;promises to plant 1,000 new trees in place of those taken down,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/19\/uk-usa-space-shuttle-idUSLNE88I01I20120919\">according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Naturally, you get full <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> team coverage today, as our own Desi Doyen, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><em>Green News Report<\/em><\/a>, from a different vantage point, gets a great still shot of Endeavour flying between Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood sign&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/SpaceShuttleEndeavorOverHollywood_FinalFlight_092112_HollywoodSign_crop.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Desi got <i>three<\/i> flyovers from her vantage point. Here&#8217;s a shot from the closest one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/SpaceShuttleEndeavorOverHollywood_FinalFlight_092112_DesiOverhead.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final flight, ever, for a Space Shuttle &#8212; at least until it&#8217;s taken out of mothballs to stop the asteroid &#8212; 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}