How many miles did endeavour fly

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Hundreds of office workers stood atop downtown skyscrapers, cheering as the shuttle banked low around the city as it arrived from its last stopover at Edwards Air Force Base, about miles north of the city in the Mojave desert.

Tens of thousands more spectators, armed with photo and video cameras, had jammed into Griffith Park and Observatory and the surrounding area to catch a glimpse of Endeavour as it soared over the landmark Hollywood sign. Applause and cheers rolled through the hills when the orbiter and its escort roared past three times, each pass closer than the one before.

Karamargin, who joined the couple for the event. After its arrival at Los Angeles, Endeavour will undergo preparations to be moved next month through city streets from the airport to its permanent home at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles, where the shuttle will be put on public display starting October To make way for the mammoth orbiter along its mile km route to the museum, crews are cutting down nearly trees, raising overhead utility wires and temporarily removing hundreds of utility poles, street lights and traffic signals.

The science center has agreed to plant 1, new trees to replace those scheduled for removal. Within weeks of Endeavour landing, Hubble embarked on a succession of stunning and still unfolding discoveries that have helped to confirm the existence of black holes, refine the age of the universe and reveal star- and planet-forming processes.

Endeavour lifted off again on Dec. Over the day flight led by Robert Cabana, currently the director of Kennedy Space Center, six astronauts joined the first U. On subsequent missions, Endeavour lifted components of the station's solar power system, Japan's Kibo science module, supplies, research gear and astronauts assigned to live and work aboard the ISS.

On Endeavour's 20th flight, it picked up the torch first lit by one of Challenger's fallen crew. Morgan rejoined the space agency in and trained as an astronaut, drawing the opportunity to fly on Challenger's successor on a mission that added to the station's backbone truss.

STS was also a return to flight for Endeavour, which had undergone a month extensive upgrade, including installation of a glass cockpit and a power transfer system that enabled electricity to be siphoned from the station to extend the orbiter's stay in space.

It will now fall to his twin brother, Mark, to return Endeavour from space one last time. The day mission will also perform the first test flight of an autonomous rendezvous system developed for NASA's new generation crew vehicle, which will carry astronauts on future missions beyond low Earth orbit. Perhaps more significantly, Endeavour's final mission will complete construction of the ISS, an activity it began just over 12 years ago.

But, it was really designed to build the space station. All rights reserved. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more!