It was 10 years ago today that a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA)—known as NASA 905—with the retired orbiter Endeavour sitting atop of it ceremoniously landed at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)!
One of my former coworkers and I joined a large throng of people at a residential area overlooking LAX to see the SCA and Endeavour perform a flyover of the airport before touching down on the runway...their escort of two F-18 jets flying away to return to NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert afterwards.
And a few weeks later, Endeavour would begin her much-celebrated parade down the streets of L.A. to her final home at the California Science Center.
The video (below) posted by AFRC's Twitter account nicely sums up what an amazing and emotional day it was a decade ago to see such a historic spacecraft do a victory lap around most of California (San Diego was excluded) before arriving at her last destination in the City of Angels.
This was truly a once-in-a-lifetime event.
10 years ago today @NASA's space shuttle Endeavour took its last flight.
— NASA Armstrong (@NASAArmstrong) September 21, 2022
On its final flight on September 21,2012 to the California Science Center, Endeavour was escorted by a combination of F/A-18s and an F-15 from NASA Armstrong.
More: https://t.co/x7JovPKJLS @NASAhistory pic.twitter.com/ZXYHnpMqAo
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