Last Friday, the Space Shuttle Endeavour landed at LAX after being ferried cross-country by NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier. The building where I work faces LAX, so I had a front row seat to Endeavour's 4 passes. I worked on Space Shuttle back in the day - 9 years doing thermal analysis on proprietary payloads, then designing ECLSS water/oxygen lines for its space station docking module, then working on several possible shuttle upgrade projects. It was exciting to see its last flight, but sad that there's nothing really to replace it.
Here are some photos from the event, plus a video of it coming in for landing - great view until I ran out of window. Enjoy!
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| Third pass - look at all the parked cars on the 105 Fwy with their occupants out taking photos. |
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| Circling around our buildings before coming in to land. |
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| Cars stopped on the 105 Fwy on-ramp. |
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| Just landed - welcome home! |
I guess that's what history is all about...things beginning and ending...but not always does one have a window seat on history!
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