Shuttle Endeavour transits Los Angeles this weekend, en route to her final resting place

NASA orbiter Endeavour is squeezing her way through tree-stripped streets of Los Angeles this weekend, en route to a permanent retirement home at the California Science Center.

Here's a Google Map of the route, with stopping points. Big shuttle is big. Bigger than the streets that must accommodate her. Basically, the whole thing is like the ultimate slow-speed car chase, but with fewer live news choppers overhead.

Above: BB reader Troy B. Asher caught Endeavour parked in a parking lot today. More of his pix here.

Endeavour as she moved past the shops, not sure if the crew stopped for a massage twitter.com/CNNkimsegal/st…
— Kim Segal CNN Miami (@CNNkimsegal) October 12, 2012

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http://www.sethmbaker.com/ Seth M. Baker

When I first saw the sign in the photo, I imagined for a moment that Citibank had repossessed the Endeavor for too many missed payments.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=817134618 Gary L. Dryfoos

It’s nice to see the corpse of the American space program being treated with such reverence.
http://www.bauartcreative.com/ Bauart

It’s an old design, but you know… Every future orbital spacecraft [until anti-gravity is perfected] that by design must fly into space, and then maneuver thru a dense atmosphere and glide to a safe landing, will by necessity, look almost exactly like this.
- bzishi
  
  Nah, the Space Shuttle looks the way it does due to its cargo bay. Take a look at the Dream Chaser design. I don’t know how I feel about another space plane after the cost overruns with the Space Shuttle, but the Dream Chaser design is pretty kickass.
anansi133

Yikes! for as much money as they’re spending on the move, they could have just built a new museum around the ship.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=623576662 Mark Hennessy-Barrett

I really really do and *really really don’t* want to drive out to see her on her final voyage tomorrow. On the one hand; Hey! Spaceship! Brilliant!

On the other, she’s in a bloody hearse, basically. This is her going to her interment, where her gutted body will lay in state.

I’d rather visit SpaceX and see the new babies, I think.
Brainspore

Any Angelino can tell you it’s a pain in the butt to catch a shuttle from LAX.