The retired space shuttle Endeavour was recently moved by road from Los Angeles International Airport to its permanent display site at the California Science Center in Exposition Park. The video clip below is a time-lapse record of its final journey. I recommend watching it in full-screen mode.
The Los Angeles Times, which produced the video clip, has a very interesting article about how it was made. It looks to have been a very complex and arduous task. Recommended reading.
Peter
Check out these photos from the flight deck and mid-deck during one of the last few times it was powered up, and these photos from the L.A. move!
My first job when I moved to CA was at the Museum of Science and Industry in Exposition Park. The Park was home to the Olympic Stadium, this museum, the Museum of Natural History. Then the Space Center was built, which now is the Science Center.It is a special place.
One of my best childhood memories was of my father running into the house to get my mother and me to go outside and look to the Northwest.
Far in the distance we could see a rocket ascending from Cape Canaveral.
It was a Jupiter C on it's way into space.
One of the best memories of my college years was watching the first moon landing in the dorm TV room, until the camera on the moon malfunctioned.
More moon landings followed, the shuttle missions, NASA's space probes; ever raising the bar of achievement. America was doing things that the other nations could only marvel at.
Now, thanks to a malfeasant president our our space program has been gutted and our space hardware turned into museum exhibits.
thanks to a malfeasant president our our space program has been gutted and our space hardware turned into museum exhibits.
I'd say "thanks to a Congress that doesn't care about scientific progress, that funds NASA at less than 0.5% of the national budget", rather than "thanks to the current President, who seems to care more about science and education than any of the last several Presidents"..