Through NASA’s Lens: Capturing Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Move to LA
Thousands of visitors to Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure parks got a special treat when NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with space shuttle Endeavour on top flew over at low level during its flyover of Los Angeles.
Key points
- NASA/Carla Thomas The space shuttle’s flight path included other California landmarks: Dodger Stadium, the Getty Center, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, the Golden Gate Bridge, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and the Santa Monica Pier.
- Shuttle Endeavour was ferried to Los Angeles, briefly flying over the California state capitol, Sacramento, then demated from its NASA 747 and trailered to the….
- 21, 2012, while millions watched space shuttle Endeavour fly on top of the agency’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the last time.
Additional details
- NASA/Lori Losey “Chasing Endeavour’s final ferry flight over Southern California was, without a doubt, a leading highlight of my 37-year career at NASA,” said Lori Losey, lead videographer at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.
- Like many flight efforts, this journey took a significant amount of preplanning with the California Science Center, as well as groups like the Federal Aviation Administration, the Los Angeles International Airport, and NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
- The space shuttle will soon be seen, along with some of the images from the final flight, in its permanent home inside the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at the California Science Center in Downtown Los Angeles.
- Endeavour helped begin assembly of the International Space Station by delivering its first components to orbit and went on to complete 25 missions.
- NASA/Jim Ross Endeavour was escorted by NASA Armstrong’s F/A-18s and an F-15, which carried the photo and video teams in the back seats.
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