Adios Endeavour!

[xcm]

Those guys in the boomlift had quite the idea...http://imageshack.us

 

[tbburg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlG7W0gkjjE

So long baby,..

'Wonder how much longer we'll have a space program,..

 

[souske]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlG7W0gkjjE

So long baby,..

'Wonder how much longer we'll have a space program,..

its our only hope

 

[GSequoia]

I'll have to check it out when it's being road transported.

 

[xcm]

What a photo! Did you take that?

 

[GrimmJeeper]

I'll have to check it out when it's being road transported.

best i can do to clean that up... good old LA smog lol

email me the original and i'll see if i can clean it up better, that's a killer shot Geoff. :cheers: this way it looks like it was shot in the 60s lol

 

[heyhar]

The 747 is just as much an antique museum piece as the shuttle!

 

[Lurch]

I'll have to check it out when it's being road transported.

Love this pic, god our air sucks.

 

[GrimmJeeper]

it makes me choke just looking at it lol

 

[tbburg]

The 747 is just as much an antique museum piece as the shuttle!

Almost 45 years old,.. still going strong too. Re-engined with modern hi-bypass FADEC contolled turbo-fans, it's still competitive with the newest airliners made. Funny how some artifacts reach a certain level of development, then just,.. stop. Minor tweaks are made, but the basic design doesn't change. Newer, more "modern" equivalents are developed which sometimes equal the original, but nothing manages to surpass it in any great way. Modern handguns and the 1911 come to mind. Modern rifles and the Winchester 70 too.

It could be, that in certain endeavors, humans can reach a level close to perfection.

 

[Johnnie Walker]

I live not too far from VAFB, where the shuttle was transported to.

 

[tbburg]

Here's a sat. photo of Endeavor crossing the desert on NM:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/09/25/endeavours-last-flight-seen-from-space/

 

[Beezil]

I live not too far from VAFB, where the shuttle was transported to.

awesome, great contribution

 

[GSequoia]

awesome, great contribution

What confuses me is the shuttle went from Florida to Edwards AFB, not Vandenberg...

 

[bigalpha]

On it's way to CA, they actually had it buzz Tucson at around 500 feet. They didn't do any publicizing about it here, so I was at work that day (not in Tucson). Oh the sadness.

 

[David_Bricker]

And I was in Tucson that day, but forgot about it, and didn't go outside. Dumb mistake on my part.

David Bricker / SYR

 

[GSequoia]

And I was in Tucson that day, but forgot about it, and didn't go outside. Dumb mistake on my part.

David Bricker / SYR

Senior moment.

 

[Vanimal]

Golden Girls was on.

 

[David_Bricker]

Senior moment.

No denying that. They seem to be coming more frequently as well.

David Bricker / SYR