Just so those on the west coast get some Shuttle love too, the Shuttle Endeavour will be heading out to La La Land and will land at LAX on Sept. 20th.
Full story:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-082412a.html (http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-082412a.html)
very pretty shot! :D
Wow - looks like they are cutting down about 400 trees in order to move the shuttle through the streets of LA. Sorry, but is this really necessary?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/05/space-shuttle-endeavour-la-trees?newsfeed=true (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/sep/05/space-shuttle-endeavour-la-trees?newsfeed=true)
Well that's not great. You'd think they'd be able to airlift it into place or something.
Quote from: billybob476 on September 05, 2012, 08:48:28 AM
Well that's not great. You'd think they'd be able to airlift it into place or something.
I guess it's too heavy to airlift and they can't take it apart or use freeways due to it's size. Well, the lumber yards will be happy. ;)
I saw this on the local news last night. Funny that The Guardian actually gives a toss about trees in California but whatever. Kind of a tempest in a tea pot considering they will replace the trees.
Now they also have to take down (temporarily) about 50 traffic lights too.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/09/10/34204/transportation-crews-remove-traffic-lights-space-s/ (http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/09/10/34204/transportation-crews-remove-traffic-lights-space-s/)
Looks like the shuttle needs folding wings!
Quote from: billybob476 on September 10, 2012, 09:23:40 AM
Looks like the shuttle needs folding wings!
I'm not sure you'd have found anyone to have flown it if the wings were supposed to fold! I know some jets do, but given the stresses this thing was designed to handle...
On it's way to LA now.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hTUfgnl1LOZHYMhFi-td7p3h7eYg?docId=CNG.045e093ae4560e6380cfd61b81280fa2.01 (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hTUfgnl1LOZHYMhFi-td7p3h7eYg?docId=CNG.045e093ae4560e6380cfd61b81280fa2.01)
And it's doing a low flyover Tuscon but not Phoenix is less then 2 hours! Damn!!! :(
Some more cool images of the trip out west.
Wish I could see this. I hope to see the shuttle on the deck of the Intrepid in December (when we do our traditional family weekend in Manhattan).
This is pretty cool!
I got to see this right outside my work.. it was pretty incredible.
so cool Kenny
That would have been cool to see!
A ton of great images here:
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/09/19/endeavour-photos/#/0 (http://framework.latimes.com/2012/09/19/endeavour-photos/#/0)
I still remember seeing Enterprise flying piggy back over London all those years ago. It's still an impressive sight.
Man this is an awesome time-lapse video the journey.
Mission 26 The Big Endeavour on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/51621640)
Another link to this if you need it:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/10/18/amazing-new-time-lapse-video-space-shuttle-endeavour-los-angeles-international-airport-science/ (http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/10/18/amazing-new-time-lapse-video-space-shuttle-endeavour-los-angeles-international-airport-science/)
And here:
Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour's trek across L.A. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6m-5mBcuGQ#ws)
I got to see it from my roof. When the Endeavor made it's first pass, it flew directly over me. I could hear it, but couldn't see it due to some fog. Actually, it flew directly over me TWICE and I wasn't able to see it. I could have gotten some really good close up pics of it.
Oh, btw, the green lines are power lines.