This should be a slow and smooth, through the city street parade retirement of the shuttle in space record millions of miles journey.
But, forge ahead of the final mission birth without notice, is a logistics headache, delay the arrival of it, the museum of the resting place of about 17 hours.
12 miles of weaving the past trees and telegraph pole, including thousands of worship onlookers, flashing cameras, even television advertising of shooting, "progressive" in California science center Sunday arrived in the city's greetings the leaders and other dignitaries, it more hours.
"Striving" is still slow to reason in the middle of the museum on Sunday afternoon hangar.
"It's like Christmas!" Marc bain said, 55 years old, the museum at a snail's way of the shuttle from hangar internal support team members. "We have been waiting for so long, be told so many things, it will be here, but here is that this is a dream come true."
Moving a slow travel plan, he said through model-tv icas Los Angeles southern bus, once more than 17000 miles of orbit mobile, in its last voyage only two miles.
But, it is estimated that turned out to be generous, "progressive" often the crawling speed almost detection not, when it is not a dead station, due to the difficult to motor disorder, such as branches and lamp post.
On Sunday morning again put off the shuttle's remote control, 160 rounds of carrier began to leak,.
Although armed robbery, responsible for carrying the shuttle's team was a "very with a sense of accomplishment," when it's done it museum, said spokesman Jim hennessy, Sarens contract, the forerunner.
"This is a historic, will be a beautiful memories," he said. "No too many people will be able to match - said," we put forward the shuttle model-tv icas on the streets of Los Angeles. "
Transportation spurt cross town is an expensive feat, estimated $10 million price tag, science centers and private donations to pay.
Last Friday, staff spent several hours will move back and forth in a special, lighter traction car, its trip interstate 405. The car over Manchester big road and bridge, a Toyota Tundra pickup car company business events taken pay license, the whole scene has special lighting, sound and stage set into a movie.
Good start on Saturday, and forge ahead of the 90 minutes ahead of schedule. However, the accumulation of disorder, cause hiccups, running time in a day behind the end.
Along the line of about 400 trees have been deleted, but officials say the most cannot be cut down trees, bring them trouble, because they are the other reasons, including some planting service in honour of Martin Luther King or precious old
The crowd also has its problems. Although the temperature in the 70 s, dozens of people were scald after treatment, a long day in the sun, according to fire officials.
However, this is a happy, peaceful crowd, firefighters response shear fire hydrant and a small garbage fire, and no arrest anyone report.
Although later problems, most of the day is the holiday mood.
In the "progressive" low speed through the city's streets fluctuation class every turn, audience seize crossings working class southern Los Angeles street, shuttle shuffle through many shops, school, church through the front yard. Pavement limitation, as a result of "progressive" huge wingspan.
Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles home. It may have been compressed around the earth nearly 4700 times, but its root in California solid foundation. Its main engine be molded in the SAN fernando valley. In silicon valley invention thermal tile. In Los Angeles suburb of donnie "fly line" technology development. In 1991, it introduced in the mojave desert assembly production line, to replace the challenger, in 1986 blew up in the launch.
"Striving" shuffle the crowd, the obvious age after 12300 miles of space and two more than ten re-enter.
Stephanie gibbs, long-term residents icas wood, through the BBS, the Los Angeles lakers used to play "progressive" a home on Saturday, many times in her life. But she didn't prepare for what she saw.
"It is the shuttle blockade of the street and I said, 'wow,'" she said.
Gibbs, who lives move keren shaw lane, the most narrow a section, want to see a sign, designated bus cross.
"We have on the map", because the lakers, she said. "Such a window more."




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