Posted on 10/21/2012 11:59:07 AM PDT by freedumb2003
The space shuttle Endeavour made its final journey last weekend, traveling 12-miles from Los Angeles International Airport, through Inglewood, to the California Science Center in Exposition Park.
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This isn’t anything to celebrate. Obozo has pretty much shut down the space program.
The truck driver needs to put that on his resume.
Friggin liberals got the space shuttle in LA LA Land. And the hard working NASA people of Houston get bupkis. Nothing like politicizing every-friggin-thing, eh Kenya boy???
I agree. The shot from inside the apartment was the best.
>>This isn’t anything to celebrate. Obozo has pretty much shut down the space program.<<
It isn’t celebration so much as a pretty amazing video. You gotta admit those moments where they were slowly inching by trees and the like it was pretty dramatic.
should have pulled it through the streets with a team of horses :(
This actually made me cry. End of an era; end of our program.
Agreed. King 0bama called the shots and dissed ‘the old white guys’ in Houston who, without them, we’d never achieved our triumphs in space. This was a slap to ‘the old guard’ of space and the white establishment. The same retaliatory move King 0bama made when he booted the bust of Churchill out of the White House and replace him with.. MLK?
I think I saw a few ‘Muslims outreaching’ to NASA!
“You didn’t create that”
-B Hussein Obama.
The Obama collective Gov giveth and the Gov taketh away.
Lots of emotions about this...but, just the same this was fascinating to watch.
Yeah, we got shafted here in Seattle too, the home of the Boeing Corp when the shuttle was designed and manufactured. The World renowned Air & Space Museum is at Boeing Field! They begged for one of the shuttles, just like Huston we got the shaft.
I’ll bet you this too, both the city of Seattle and Houston will vote for their abuser zero!
One question, hopefully someone knows the answer:
Wouldn't it have been much, much easier, and probably much cheaper... to remove outer segments of the wings, then trasport? Everytime an airliner is moved, the wings come off..Reinstalling them poses no great problem..doesn't have to be a perfect job..it's not gonna fly again.
Suspect the wings aren’t attached in the manner that they are to an airliner. A glance at the bottom of the shuttle reveals a continuous surface from wingtip to wingtip, apparently uninterrupted by seams or rivets. If so, it’s probably because conventional wings wouldn’t survive the forces generated by re-entry.
I saw a news story, where the wing removal question was asked. The people at the museum want to keep the shuttle ‘authentic’, right down to the last scorch mark on the heat tiles. So they didn’t want to cut the wings off (and I assume they aren’t just bolted on).
I don’t necessarily agree, but that was the answer given.
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