On April 20, 2012, Discovery arrived at the Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex to the National Air and Space Museum near D.
NASA SPACE SHUTTLE LOS ANGELES ARRIVAL DRIVERS
The shuttle’s arrival brought two major freeways leading to the Los Angeles airport to a standstill as drivers got out of their cars to watch the spacecraft make its final approach. The orange-brown tank, which will be transported by barge from New Orleans to California via the Panama Canal and then moved overland through the streets of Los Angeles, will be stacked with NASAs retired orbiter Endeavour and a pair of boosters that were obtained earlier. Preparations for the shuttle’s arrival at the Smithsonian took nearly a year. The historic prototype is set to arrive at JFK Airport April 23 aboard a 747. “Let me be the first to say, welcome to Los Angeles, Endeavour,” Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said during a ceremony on the tarmac. The NASA space shuttle Enterprise will soon be at the center of the universe New York City.
Hundreds of office workers stood atop downtown skyscrapers, cheering as the shuttle banked low around the city as it arrived from its last stopover at Edwards Air Force Base, about 100 miles north of the city in the Mojave desert. 25, 2012, to scout photo ops for Endeavour's California arrival in September. A NASA T-38 and F-18 jet will fly over Los Angeles on Aug. after hop-scotching across the country from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and flying a victory lap over California. Two NASA T-38 jets fly over space shuttle Endeavour in 2009. Space shuttle Endeavours highly anticipated arrival in Los Angeles has been deferred by a day. This is the optimum viewing period as the sun reflects off the space station and contrasts against the darker sky. The 75-ton winged spaceship, ferried by a modified Boeing 747, landed at Los Angeles International Airport shortly before 1:00 p.m. All sightings will occur within a few hours before or after sunrise or sunset. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era. On Friday, NASAs space shuttle Endeavour landed in Los Angeles, California, after completing its final flight, a cross-country farewell journey with. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner is flying Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center.
The space shuttle Endeavour, atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies over Houston, Texas in this SeptemNASA handout photo.
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