Officials have revealed some details of space shuttle Endeavour's aerial tour of California, a final flight that is to include low-level passes over the state Capitol, San Francisco and several Los Angeles landmarks. Riding piggyback on a modified 747 aircraft, the retired shuttle will depart Edwards Air Force Base about 7:15 a.m. Friday and will fly low over Palmdale, Lancaster, Rosamond and Mojave before heading north to Sacramento, NASA officials said. There, Endeavour will fly over the… (latimesblogs.latimes.com) 更多...
Landed in Houston today. Will make flyovers Friday over S.F., Sacramento, etc., before landing in L.A. www.ABC.com to find out which L.A. Landmarks it will fly over on Friday & when. (L.A. drivers warned not to stop or pull over or get distracted & take eyes off road while shuttle makes its low flyover. Good luck with that one.)
Troy - There are no flights filed today between KTTS and KEFD. Therefore, the flight was again delayed by weather or has been exempted from flight tracking.
I was playing golf in Wilcox, AZ a while back and I heard what I thought was just a loud jet airliner passing by and none of us bothered to turn around to look at it. Found out later it was the Shuttle-747 combo making it's way back to Florida from Edwards AFB. Still kicking myself about that.
I watch the first shuttle landing at Edwards AFB in 1983 or may be 1984, a sight that I will never forget. This was more memorable than the first. At last one came home....
Could have been part of a large air show that begins on Saturday in the Daytona area. What's the rush to get this thing to the west coast? A great flyaway could have been ... drawing record crowds ... just sayin'.
Stays overnight in Houston tonight. Flies to Edwards Air Force Base tomorrow & stays there tomorrow night. Does its CA flyovers around the state Friday before landing at LAX.
Drove 90 miles from Chico to Sacramento to see the fly-over this morning at about 0945. Was an awesome sight to behold. Once in a lifetime. So glad we made the trip.
Weather pushes space shuttle Endeavour's L.A. arrival to Friday
Space shuttle Endeavour will arrive in Los Angeles a day later than originally intended after the threat of thunderstorms again delayed the start of the retired orbiter's cross-country trip from Florida.
The shuttle is now expected to reach Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, NASA announced.
Endeavour was supposed to leave NASA's Kennedy Space Center for Houston early Monday, the first leg of its days-long trek across the southern United States that includes 1,500-foot flyovers of several NASA facilities.
NASA's retired shuttle Endeavour heads west Monday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The baby of NASA's space shuttle fleet is about to leave home — for good.
At sunrise Monday, Endeavour will depart Kennedy Space Center for a museum in California, with a two-day stopover in Houston, home to Mission Control and the astronauts who flew aboard the replacement for the lost shuttle Challenger.
Space Shuttle Endeavour to perform flyovers on its way to Los Angeles
Houston, Galveston, El Paso, Las Cruces, San Francisco, and Sacramento among some of the cities Endeavour will fly over, en route to being put on display in Los Angeles.
Space shuttle to fly Las Cruces skies in farewell trip
LAS CRUCES — It's one last chance to say good-bye.
Later this month, the Space Shuttle Endeavour will sail over White Sands Missile Range, NASA facilities on the East Mesa and the city of Las Cruces on its farewell voyage across America.
NASA officials announced this week the shuttle will make a special pass over the Las Cruces area — thanks to its decades-long involvement with the U.S. space shuttle program and a "fortuitous" location along the shuttle's flight path to California. Endeavour be retired there.
www.ABC.com to find out which L.A. Landmarks it will fly over on Friday & when. (L.A. drivers warned not to stop or pull over or get distracted & take eyes off road while shuttle makes its low flyover. Good luck with that one.)