This morning the Space Shuttle Endeavour left Edwards and circled Mojave, Rosamond, Lancaster, and Palmdale where it was built. We drove near the Boeing plant where we had heard it may do a fly over.
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| Cars parked along the road waiting for the flyover |
After waiting about 15 minutes we could see the shuttle in the distance. It first flew towards us and then banked to our left.
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| Flying at about 1500 feet |
It seemed to be flying over the 14 freeway.
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| Getting closer |
The shuttle kept getting closer, and then circled around us.
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| We could hear the 747 as it passed us |
As it banked again it started heading south.
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| Heading south |
It starting getting further away and then banked back towards us. It began heading directly towards the Boeing building and dropped from 1500 feet to maybe 300 feet and did a very low pass directly over Boeing.
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| Flying low over Boeing |
After passing Boeing it started gaining elevation to head north towards Sacramento.
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| Gaining elevation |
In this picture you can see how low the shuttle is compared to the houses in the picture above.
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| Low altitude fly over |
This was really a thrill and we feel blessed to have been here to witness this historic event. They say this will be the last flight of any Space Shuttle and we were here to see it! Awesome.
We sent some of our pictures to KTLA and I'm not sure if they showed them on TV, but they are on their web site. Pretty cool!!!
God Bless you all!
Love you,
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