In Focus: A Space Shuttle on the Streets of Los Angeles
The space shuttle Endeavour is on its last mission today, a 12-mile creep through Los Angeles city streets on a 160-wheeled carrier. It is passing through neighborhoods and strip malls, headed toward its final destination, the California Science Center in South Los Angeles. At times, the shuttle has barely cleared trees, houses and and street signs along a course heavily prepared for the trip. The move will cost an estimated $10 million, according to the Exposition Park museum. Gathered here are a few images of Endeavour’s last journey.
Today in doing things just because we can.
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Space Shuttle Discovery flying over The Atlantic offices at The Watergate.
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Atlantis currently traveling at 12,000 miles per hour, four miles a second
Space War!
This July 1977 PopMech feature imagines the yet-to-be-launched space shuttle capturing enemy satellites with its mechanical claws.
Endeavour roars up to sky with Roberto Vittori and AMS-02 (by europeanspaceagency)
Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched into space at 14:56 CEST (12:56 GMT) on 16 May from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 16-day-long STS-134 mission will deliver AMS-02, a big cosmological instrument to the Space Station and its crew includes ESA’s Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori. This is the last flight of Endeavour.
