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Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:03:03 +0000

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By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:11:12 +0000

We stand on the cusp of the future, and it won’t be long before we make that next giant leap.

I so hope you are right BA. But I fear it will be a very long time before we see the likes of the Space Shuttles again. After the Saturn-Apollo rockets and spacecraft, the Space Shuttles were my second favourite and, I think, second most impressive ever of space craft. Reusable spaceplanes capable of carrying seven people and heavy loads like space telescopes and spaceprobes and space station components into orbit. I think we'll only realise how good they were now they're gone. Great clip but very bittersweet. @ 20. Jon :

To see the ferry flights to bring Discovery, Enterprise and now Endeavour, to their final places

Have you forgotten the Atlantis orbiter or has (will) it not (yet?) been ferried home? Wonder what they're doing with the left over Solid Rocket Boosters and if any of them and /or External tanks will be gracing the Cape Canaveral lawns as ornaments?

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:32:48 +0000

I find that the last chapter of the Shuttle Program has been written. To see the ferry flights to bring Discovery, Enterprise and now Endeavour, to their final places heartwarming and yet still sad. As a kid in 4th Grade, I remember hearing about Challenger’s destruction 73 seconds into flight. In 7th Grade, I participated in the OV-105 naming… I submitted the name “Frontier”, to represent “The Final Frontier” as mentioned in Star Trek. I followed the construction of Endeavour that was chronicalled in Discovery/Odyssey magazines, and then in the newspapers for the prepping of the maiden flight, before the historic, record setting flight. The Shuttle Program is all I know, was born after the end of the Apollo Program. Orion & Dragon is the next step, America needs to quit procrastinating and take the step.

This was a great video!

By: James

James — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:22:44 +0000

I’ve never been a fan of the Shuttle in the first place, but I really wish that they could have retired them in a more practical way – as a shuttle-C configuration, or in permenant orbit as an extension to the ISS or an independant space station. Drive it on remote as a sattalite recovery vehicle. I’m sure there are other things you can do.

By: Glidingpig

Glidingpig — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:50:43 +0000

I just went to the California Science Center today, they are closing up the last side of the building the shuttle is in, but there is still a 20′ or so gap you can see the butt end of it through. That thing is bigger than I expected.

I am surprised the CSS doesn’t charge for admission too. The IMAX and some of the events inside cost though. My brothers kids loved it, the huge fish tank is pretty nice.

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Endeavour's Last Voyage - BrownSpaceMan | BrownSpaceMan — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:43:27 +0000

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By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:46:42 +0000

I assume that the shuttle was off-loaded from the mover using some sort of cradle and pneumatic or hydraulic jacks which lifted the cradle allowing the mover to be rolled out. Once clear of the mover, the shuttle could then be lowered into its final resting position.

Are there any videos (or pictures) of that operation to anybody’s knowledge?

By: AstronomyGuy

AstronomyGuy — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:43:44 +0000

As to the trees being cut down. It was somewhat controversial, but overall I believe most people in L.A. were okay with it since they promised to plant back twice as many as were cut down.
Both videos very nicely done.

By: Diederick

Diederick — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:32:48 +0000

They should have send one of them into space.

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:52:03 +0000

It wasn’t the LA Times blocking their video. It was Vimeo.