U.S. space shuttle Endeavour on its way to the final leg of the California Center for Science

After the planned retirement prescribed space shuttle Endeavour on Friday on a trip is different from all those previous prowling the streets of Los Angeles instead of exploring space to settle finally in place the California Science Center on the outskirts of the city.


Endeavour was launched from Los Angeles airport airspace at dawn on Friday in a two-day road trip on the back of huge transport vehicle heading to its final destination.
The official said Ken Phillips Space Center California Science Speaking from the shuttle, which has space missions from 1992 to 2011 and which will be presented to the public starting place of this month, "It is a national treasure that is Let us all when our taxes."
He described Endeavour as one of the pillars of the space program in the United States and that he represents "I think the best they can for humans that Ingsoh when decide to cooperate to accomplish great things."
The Center California Science may outweigh a number of other institutions when chosen Aviation Administration and Space Administration (NASA) by headquarters permanent shuttle, which weighs 80 tons and transmitted by NASA to retire last year after the United States has spent its share of the international space station, which is a complex research always 15 state-owned revolves around the Earth at an altitude of 400 kilometers.
The workers had cut down 400 trees on the shuttle route, which extends for a distance of 19 kilometers to make way for crossing center planted more than a thousand other tree instead.
The shuttle transfer from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida to Los Angeles on the back of a modified Boeing -747 on Sept. 21 last year.
The Los Angeles Police closed streets through which the convoy of shuttle event organizers describe as "Mission 26," referring to previous shuttle missions in space and the 25 mission.
The Endeavour has been built two decades ago in California and landed at the base of Edwards seven times, most recently in 2008. Endeavour was built instead of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which exploded when launched in 1986, killing seven astronauts.
Endeavour is the second shuttle untouched NASA to space museums after the oldest U.S. shuttle Discovery, which is now showing at the Smithsonian Space Center near Washington. And the third will show the shuttle Atlantis in an exhibition hall at the Kennedy Space Center in November next. NASA had also lost in Columbia accident in 2003.