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Topic:	10/12-13: Mission 26: The Big Endeavour (L.A.)

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by stsmithva: [B]I just saw one of the time-lapse videos above on another website and came here to post it - should have known Robert would already have it up! Anyway, check one or both of them out - they are fascinating.[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>collectSPACE <BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-100812a.html">Space shuttle Endeavour to leave on road trip this week</a>As it turns out, transporting a space shuttle through city streets is a "Big Endeavour."Space shuttle Endeavour, the youngest of NASA's retired orbiters, will depart later this week on a road trip from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to its new exhibition at the California Science Center (CSC). The two day, 12 mile (19 kilometer) journey follows Endeavour's delivery to L.A. atop a jumbo jet last month.The move, which will begin hours before dawn on Friday morning (Oct. 12) and end after nightfall the next day has been dubbed as "Mission 26: The Big Endeavour." While it was in service to NASA, Endeavour flew 25 missions to space between 1992 and 2011.</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-100812a.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-100812a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>collectSPACE <BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101212a.html">Shuttle Endeavour embarks on Los Angeles road trip</a>Space shuttle Endeavour has hit the road.The black and white winged orbiter, which is the youngest in NASA's now retired fleet, left Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) atop a self-propelled, overland transporter in the early morning hours on Friday (Oct. 12). The motion signaled the start of a 2-day road trip to deliver Endeavour to its new exhibit at the California Science Center (CSC).</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101212a.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-101212a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>collectSPACE <BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101212b.html">Photo gallery: On the road with space shuttle Endeavour</a>Space shuttle Endeavour, which launched to orbit 25 times, has embarked on "Mission 26," a two-day, 12-mile (19-kilometer) road trip to the California Science Center (CSC) for display.</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101212b.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-101212e-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>rasorenson</TD><TD>While it is wonderful to see thousands turn out to see Endeavour on its way to the California Science Center, I couldn't help feeling that she looked like a tied down Gulliver moving through all the confining electrical wires and signs of the suburban city. My reaction was that it appeared so much less dignified than Enterprise arriving at Carrier Intrepid amid showers of fire boats. One media comment was that she was on her way to her final resting place. It feels to me more like a funeral procession. No less proud of her of course. I had the good fortune of seeing Endeavour up close in person while she was being built. Go Endeavour! </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>collectSPACE <BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101312a.html">Space shuttle Endeavour towed over L.A. freeway by Toyota truck</a>Why did the space shuttle cross the road? To get to the other side... of the 405.Or at least, that was the case for the shuttle Endeavour, which over night Friday (Oct. 12) was towed by a Toyota Tundra truck over the Los Angeles freeway to complete its first day on its trip to the California Science Center (CSC) for display.</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101312a.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-101312a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Ronpur</TD><TD>When I see all of these people cheering Endeavour's tour, and all of the people watching the ferry flights, I wish that at least half of them would write their congressmen and ask for more support of our space program. </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>collectSPACE <BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101412a.html">Shuttle Endeavour arrives at its new L.A. museum home</a>Space shuttle Endeavour has come to its final stop — finally.The iconic black and white orbiter, which flew 25 times to space over the past two decades, arrived at the California Science Center (CSC) Sunday afternoon (Oct. 14) where it will begin its new mission as a museum exhibit.It had been scheduled to pull up at the CSC on Saturday night, but natural and utility obstacles, as well as the need for maintenance of its transporters, slowed the pace of the shuttle's parade and delayed it arrival by a day.Not that many of the spectators who came out to see the shuttle roll by seemed to mind...</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101412a.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-101412a-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>collectSPACE <BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101612a.html">Shuttle Endeavour's L.A. adventure captured in photos</a>The final journey of space shuttle Endeavour may have been its shortest mission, but it also is very likely its most documented. Millions of spectators not only were there to see Endeavour's road trip through Los Angeles, but also photograph it with just about every image recording device imaginable, from cell phone to Hollywood 3D camera. To capture this not just once in a lifetime, but "once" event, collectSPACE presents a photo gallery or more than 150 images showing Endeavour from the start to finish of its three-day, 12-mile "Mission 26."</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101612a.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-101612a/157.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>There are a few timelapse movies of Endeavour's move (including <A HREF="http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10/15/time-lapse-video-space-shuttle-endeavours-trek-across-l-a/" TARGET=_blank>this one</A> from the Los Angeles Times) but the below video, by Matthew Givot, Joe Capra, Chris Pritchard, Brian Hawkins, Andrew Walker and Ryan Killackey, is really a <A HREF="http://vimeo.com/51621640" TARGET=_blank>work of art</A>. <center><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/51621640?title=1&byline=1&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>

stsmithva

I just saw one of the time-lapse videos above on another website and came here to post it - should have known Robert would already have it up! Anyway, check one or both of them out - they are fascinating.

Robert Pearlman

Toyota Racing photo release

The Red Horse Racing No. 11 Tundra, driven by Todd Bodine, features a Toyota Tundra Endeavour Project paint scheme today at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
A 2012 Tundra Crewmax pickup recently towed the 170,000-pound space shuttle Endeavour and its custom tow dolly across a Los Angeles freeway bridge en route to the California Science Center, where the shuttle was placed on permanent display on October 13, 2012.

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