SPACE SHUTTLE Endeavour | OV 105 final flight tested external fuel tank arrives in LA….

 

On clear fine day on Los Angeles,  on 21st May 2016 the one route path of Los Angeles was closed down from Marina del Rey’s Harbour after a nineteen hour trip through the streets of LA, to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum where It was store temporary to make way for the final stages of massive display at the “ California Science Centre” with a full stack, with the pair of solid rocket boosters, the external fuel tank with the Shuttle Endeavour joined together in which they vertically where it would seeming like if was prime up for relaunch at Kennedy Space Center in Florida..  in the new wing of the Samuel Oschin Pavilion…

California Science center – Samuel Oschin Pavilion…wing for the Space Shuttle Endeavour exhibit

The journey started from a forty one day journey from “NASA” Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in which they tooled, manufactured external fuel Tanks for the Space Shuttle program… in which is now retooled for the Space Launch System for the return to the moon, and onwards to Mars beyond, in which the transportation of External Tank number 94, travelled by ocean through the Panama channel to Los Angles Marina del Rey..

For the first time…..first lanuches…

As the Space shuttle program draws to a close during this week on spending its last duration flight of 12 days in space in with the International Space station, and Atlantis ending the program on STS 135, ending a brilliant 30 years hard-working  programme in which could lasted a little bit longer, given that there was another vehicle emplaced from the last time Atlantis lands on that runway, for the very last time. on that note it’s also the Day when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

One interesting thing watching the 30 years of the  Space Shuttle programme, is the televised shift from analogue to complete digital now viewed from the Cathode Ray Tube to the internet of watching it through NASA TV, via USTREAM.

Space Shuttle Enterprise OV 101– the sister that start in all.

Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 STS 001

Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099 STS 006

Space Shuttle Discovery OV-102 STS 41-D- with an abort launch.

Space shuttle Atlantis OV-104– STS 51-J

Space Shuttle Endeavour OV-105 – STS 49