Motionless the Endeavour stop and go commute through the city streets, the audience Constellation the backward space shuttle tedious kiss past shops, schools, churches, and the front yard.
To get rid of the 24 times the Earth's atmosphere, slow trek Endeavour Saturday to the retirement center to its southern working-class streets of Los Angeles.
Instant shuttle port to become a part of history.
Along the 12-kilometer course, hundreds of thousands of engineering marvel. Some of these differences is that the Endeavour, it may clip a lamppost. Others just do not know if it can quickly to its destination.
Early birds gathered before Sunrise in the previous lnglewood High School to watch Endeavour rolls in prison 2 mph. The Dean Martinez lives in Los Angeles, in Inglewood, you can not miss the moment.
"This is a great city as a whole, which makes us feel proud," said Martinez, a non-profit project director.
Endeavour was originally scheduled to spend the rest of its many years of work in the museum on Saturday night at the California Science Center into inch. But as the night wore on, even slowly become a major challenge, and the journey may seem to spread to the Sunday.
The second day of the move began promising to forge ahead in a half an hour in advance. However, obstacles, and cause hiccups, it runs about 5 hours behind. There is no single cause of the recession - this is the accumulation of small problems, manipulation and maintenance.
They include a small portion of the tree move narrowest section, planners think that needs to be removed, but the parade stopped. Because the staff is trying to find how to tilt and twist the shuttle past the tree, they decided to off before Endeavour squeeze through. Another slip came when the bus hit a lamppost, the staff began to plan to delete the ship slid through.
The crowd also has its problems. Although the temperature in the mid-1970s, the treatment of burns of more than two dozen people after a long day in the sun, according to fire officials.
The size of the crowd, but incredibly, the police did not arrest anyone.
And other high-profile events such as the Oscars of the Rose Parade, the parade is concentrated in the region of the most economical torn and troubled place. The shuttle Enterprise through the gritty areas and blinds, and introduced a number of streets, burning two decades, as early as in the 1992 riots Rodney King attack.
"Shuttle through the high incidence of poverty, it can only be a good thing" for the society, said: "Damian Pipkins, volunteers at the European Southern Observatory's win books.
"Endeavour" the day before the dawn, and hit the road long and difficult journey to Los Angeles International Airport over the diamond-shaped "connection Hing" signs remote control 160 carrier. When it reaches the highway overpass in the night, a truck towed away.
The space shuttle a 10:00 late pit stop Saturday Forum - the former home of the Los Angeles Lakers - a large audience cheers greet in the parking lot of the arena. Late its second public celebrations, including dance performances, choreographer Debbie - Allen.
For most of the way, "Endeavour straddling wide boulevards - Manchester, Crenshaw, Martin Luther King, is an exception, when the space shuttle slowly through a slightly curved residential streets on both sides of the apartment buildings floor - a point, causing some delays.
Wound in South Los Angeles residents ushered in its existence. Before the move, some people lament the loss of the shadow of the trees cut down to provide clearance.
Some people think this is a decent trade.
"If you have a good social things go a little bit of pain, then it is worth it," Tucker said: Pamela Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles to live a block away.
When Endeavour the K?nigsallee rolled down, will pay special attention to pine trees planted to commemorate the slain civil rights leader.
Endeavour may be sweeping the globe nearly 4,700 times, but its roots are grounded in California. Its main engine produced by the San Fernando Valley. The thermal tile invented in Silicon Valley. In the Los Angeles suburb of Downey fly line "technology development.
It is no longer shiny and smooth, when it first launched off the assembly line in the Mojave Desert in 1991 to replace the lost Challenger. It the cruise block-by-block, which is hard to miss 12,300 miles in space, you can do two dozen re-enter to the external.
The shuffle "Endeavour" is a hard commitment - through the city streets, in the brewing for nearly a year. It can not be opened without damaging the delicate tiles. Air transport is a problem. So traveling on the highway, because it is too large, and not through the tunnel.
There are consequences. Temporarily cut power lines, hundreds of residents of Inglewood suffered hours long outages. Some businesses losing customers, because the streets and sidewalks closed.
This approach is not cheap. Inter-urban traffic is estimated to be $ 10 million, and the expense of the Science Center and private donations.
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