![]() Unlike a return from orbit, no ear-splitting twin sonic booms accompanied the latest return. "It doesn't glide very well."Įndeavour's maiden voyage into space two decades ago ended with a planned touchdown at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center based at Edwards. "Landing a space shuttle is not easy," he said. Kelley said seeing the shuttle reminded him how difficult it was to land. Karamargin said Giffords was "elated" and started "hooting and hollering" when she spotted Endeavour. The couple watched from the roof of a University of Arizona parking garage.įormer Giffords aide C.J. Before retiring from her House seat, she was a member of the House committee on science, space and technology. Kelly requested that Endeavour pass over Tucson to honour Giffords, who is recovering after suffering a head wound in a shooting rampage last year. Crowds craned their necks skyward as the shuttle circled low over Florida's Space Coast and Houston.Īfter refuelling in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, it flew over the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, an emergency shuttle landing site used once. Early Wednesday, it departed from its Cape Canaveral, Florida, home base, soared over NASA centres in Mississippi and Louisiana, and made a layover in Houston, home of Mission Control. Next stop: Los Angeles International Airport, where Endeavour will be prepped for a slow ride on a special flatbed trailer through city streets next month to its final destination as a museum showpiece.Įndeavour's highly anticipated homecoming was twice delayed by stormy weather along the Gulf of Mexico. The shuttle and jumbo jet take off again after sunrise Friday to make low, sweeping passes over Sacramento, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. Later in the day, a 747 jet carrying Endeavour swooped out of the desert sky and glided down a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base, 100 miles (160 kilometres) north of Los Angeles, not far from where the now-retired shuttle fleet was assembled. "That's my spaceship," said Endeavour's last commander, Mark Kelly, as the couple watched the shuttle loop over Tucson, Arizona. ![]() Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband. (KTVU also has a livestream right over here.LOS ANGELES - Space shuttle Endeavour returned to its California roots Thursday after a wistful cross-country journey that paid homage to NASA workers and former Arizona Rep. Disappointing for the livestream viewers, NASA cut back to archive footage from Cape Canaveral right as folks are spotting the shuttle over Oakland. ![]() Update 10 a.m.: Still hard to tell where the big bird actually is (some of the footage on the livestream appears to be replays), but crowds lined up all along Crissy Field and the Embarcadero to catch a glimpse haven't reported any local sightings yet. So the government is dodgy on #SpotTheShuttle path/times for security reasons, but they give our enemies exact location of Santa every year?- Peter Hartlaub September 21, 2012 As Chronicle reporter Peter Hartlaub points out, it's pretty funny NASA doesn't track this thing like NORAD does with Santa Claus: Should be coming through San Francisco shortly. Judging by the livestream and a CBS affiliate in Scramento the carrier and shuttle have just flown over Sacramento. (Avoiding traffic on the 101, we guess?) This is the third flight path we've seen and we can't confirm its accuracy at this point, so take it with a grain of space-salt: The new route below will still take Endeavour around the Golden Gate Bridge and for a lap over San Francisco, but now follows Interstate 280 South on the west side of the city to get down to Mountain View. Update 8:40 a.m.: ABC7 Los Angeles is reporting a different flight path from the one we had confirmed yesterday. We promise to geek out with even more photos as we get them: If you missed the takeouff, here's a parting shot from the livestream down at Edwards. Expect her around the Bay Area between 9:30 and 10 a.m. and is more or less on schedule at this point. Update: Endeavour took off around 8:20 a.m. you can watch her prepare for takeoff on the back of her Boeing 747 down at Edwards Air Force Base right here: Good morning, space fans! If you're patiently awaiting the Space Shuttle Endeavour's arrival in San Francisco around 9:30 a.m. Note: Looking for photos from Space Shuttle Endeavour's Bay Area flyover? You can find those right here.
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