At the end of the salute journey, Endeavor landed at Los Angeles International Airport where it will be taken off the 747 and transferred to the Science Center in California next month.
A Boeing 747 converted into a space shuttle carrier carried the space shuttle Endeavour, after it left the Edwards Space Center in California, on a four and a half hour journey that passed over Northern California and the Los Angeles basin.
The carrier aircraft and Endeavor saluted over the Dryden Flight Research Center and Edwards Air Force Base after takeoff as they flew low to the north of Sacramento and San Francisco Bay, passing several NASA sites, the California state capital and the Lawrence Science Museum and Aquarium in Monterey.
The pair of aircraft then flew south and passed over the Ames Space Center and Vandenberg Air Force Base into Los Angeles towards its final home over all the major sites in California including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Pasadena, but also over sites such as Disneyland.
At the end of the salute journey, Endeavor landed at Los Angeles International Airport where it will disembark from the 747 and be transferred to the Science Center in California next month.
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Anyway, island sparrow, can you tell me how many flights the space shuttle Discovery alone has made
There is a lot of information on the Internet about it, I just read newspapers and Wikipedia like everyone else... Although the program and achievements are amazing on a human and historical scale, the shuttle program was a failure because it did not meet many of the goals originally set for it. From what I read:
The intention was that the shuttles would be a cheap and quick tool to get to space and back, and that didn't happen. The planned cost of the entire program (in today's dollars) was about $50 billion, and the actual cost was more than $200 billion. Originally, about 30 launches per year were planned, which of course never happened. The shuttles turned out to be much, much more expensive and complicated than they wanted, so it was time to try something new - both in terms of the next program (Orion, etc., Congress is not closed to itself of course), and also in terms of the working method (relying on private companies).
Sparrow why the United States canceled the shuttle program
I was able to be in both Santa Monica and LAX and see the shuttle 4 times:
http://youtu.be/8iLTgM9F8Os?hd=1