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Endeavour's final flight

cmayna

cmayna

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Here's a couple shots taken this am as the Space shuttle Endeavour makes it's last flight (piggyback style) right over my work to it's final resting home in SoCal. Thousands of us NorCal people seated ourselves in many different places just to witness this very awesome event.

pic, courtesy of SF Chronicle:
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pic taken by my Ferrari neighbor::

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Here's a link to a bunch of shots taken this am by local's who submitted them to the SF Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Endeavour-s-final-bow-was-to-a-stunner-3883456.php#photo-3487279
 
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My vantage point for the flyover was Moffett Field in Mt. View. It makes you proud to know that the local folks here at NASA Ames had a part in making the shuttles reality.
 
I am working at Point Mugu today and had hoped that it would have made a pass here, but it did not. It was supposed to fly over Pepperdine in Malibu and my son might have snapped a pic of it then. Many of my co-workers saw it land as our buildings are right across the street from the runway it landed on.

I got to see two shuttles in the air during the program. First was when I was at my parent's house mowing the lawn when I heard a roar above the sound of the running lawnmower. I looked up and saw Enterprise and the 747 - NASA flew it up to Vandenburg AFB to perform fit checks of the launch pad there. (it was eventually abandoned as a launch site due to the excessive winds).

The second time was at Edwards AFB on December 8, 1983 when Columbia landed there. Due to us watching the landing (leaving Ventura at 2am), my car pool buddy and I were late to our Thermodynamics class at Cal State Northridge. Upon arriving, the prog said 'glad you could make it, why don't you tell the class why you're so late (in a stern voice). We told him we had watched the shuttle land. We instantly became heroes and he asked us to come to the front of the class and tell everyone about it. This prof had done a lot of work on the main engines at Rockwell in Canoga Park.

Shuttle fleet, RIP.....
 
It flew by here in Sacramento today but was too far away to get a good look.
 
I am so bummed that I did not get to see it today. I heard it taking off on the radio, yep they played the engine sound of the modified 747 over the radio, taking off from Edwards AFB on the way up to NorCal. They were down here from 1130 until landing at LAX at 1245. I was in Gardena, about 10 miles southeast of LAX, and did my best to be outside during that time on the slight chance I would get to see it. Yesterday I was right next to LAX. :rant Maybe I will make it up to LAX again and see it on the tarmac. Welcome back to SoCal Endeavour, your final resting place.

fd
 
Got the chance to see it as it passed over Santa Monica. It was a little too far for pics and flying pretty low so it went behind a couple of office buildings during my view but it was cool none the less.
 
It passed over too far west for me to see it at work. Maybe if I had known exactly where to look I might have seen a little speck. I guess our proximity to SJC and the flight path kept it further west.

Frank
 
I didn't see crap! Well, there was a few Crows soaring overhead.
 
"70 StangMan" said:
Already miss those awesome lift-offs from the Cape.
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I am proud to say , as a foreigner , I have seen a lift off of a spaceshuttle in sertember 1991 in Florida. :thu :thu
But I don't remember which spaceshuttle it was. :confu
 
"B67FSTB" said:
I am proud to say , as a foreigner , I have seen a lift off of a spaceshuttle in sertember 1991 in Florida. :thu :thu
But I don't remember which spaceshuttle it was. :confu
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That would have been STS-48, Discovery, September 12th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sp ... e_missions

I saw the launch of STS-87, Columbia, on November 19, 1997. I also was able to see a shuttle reentry. They didn't often reenter over N. California, not to mention at night.

Frank
 
Back in the early 80s when I was working at McDonnel Aircraft in St.Louis the then newly purchassred USED American Airlines 747 was flying the glider test shuttle Enterprise back for the next flight. It made a stop at MAC. We all lined up at the end of Lambert airport (major hub) and watched it approach with two T-38s. It did a very low pass...less than 200 ft down the runway and then pulled up at a very steep angle with a left bank. That thing was so light it probably could have done a roll. He then came back to the MAC flight line where we went over to view it.

I have a nice pic of a guard walking by it on the tarmack.
 
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