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SPACE SHUTTLE OVER HOLLYWOOD
Aerial Show for the History Books - Shuttle Arrival in Los Angeles
Okay,
this isn’t exactly a tourist
travel story about Hollywood, as this event won’t be repeating
itself. A once in a lifetime, never to happen again moment in history.
The last of the shuttle space
program has ended and the last space shuttle, the youngest of the fleet
made a cross country busman’s tour to its new home in Los Angeles,
where it it to be displayed at the California Science Center. On September
21, 2012, the space shuttle Endeaver, with a fighter escort announced
its arrival with a flyover of landmarks in Southern California, from
the Sabnta Monica Pier to Universal Studios, the Griffith Observatory
and Disneyland.
In anticipation of this event I drove up Mulholland Drive to an overlook
above the Hollywood Bowl with the few dozen other hopeful observers.
After cramming may car into the dusty hillside, with tires barely off
the road, crammed in with a line of others, I grabbed my camera bag
and made my way to a hilltop. A few of the many folks waiting had a
route
map of where the flight was to travel. Others were talking to friends
on their cellphones, relaying reports of the Endeavor, mounted piggyback
on a 747 once flown by Japan Airlines, as it made its way down the
coast from San Francisco. The weather was a bit hazy, by otherwise
a clear
SoCal day.
We could watch as the Endeavor and its fighter jet escort danced over
the Los Angeles basin, looping over downtown in the distance, then
head back around over the Getty Center then right along the Hollywood
Hills
ridgeline, roaring over our heads, almost seeming close enough to reach
out and touch. It made a loop and headed back past the Griffith Observatory
on a distant hill, heading toward Universal, passing right over the
iconic Hollywood Sign, before heading down south and to its final landing,
the
last ever at LAX, Los Angeles International Airport.
The Endeavor Space Shuttle is due to be on display at the Science Center
in Exposition Park near downtown Los Angeles. The shuttle will be displayed
in an upright position as if ready for launch inside a specially built
building. There will no visits inside the craft. A report of the Science
Center will follow.
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