My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., in April, with NASA's Enterprise shuttle prototype going on display in New York City's Intrepid Air and Space Museum in July.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: The shuttle Discovery was placed on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's Stephen F. Kelly said he also hopes to see Endeavour parade along the streets of Los Angeles when it moves from the Los Angeles International Airport to the science center in mid-October.Įndeavour is the third of the four NASA space shuttles heading to museums this year. On Wednesday, Kelly said he hoped Endeavour's ferry flight would fly over Tucson so he and his wife Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona Congresswoman, would have a chance to see it in flight. The shuttle, along with NASA's other orbiters, was built in Downey by aerospace company Rockwell International, which ultimately became part of Boeing, to replace the orbiter lost in the tragic Challenger shuttle accident of January 1986. The flight to California is a homecoming of sorts for Endeavour.
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In Houston, the home to NASA's Johnson Space Center that houses the shuttle program's Mission Control room and astronaut training center, Endeavour's stopover was a welcome sight. Thousands of onlookers watched Endeavour leave Florida as the shuttle flew over the state's Space Coast one last time. "So many people are getting a chance to see the shuttle up close - and atop the jumbo jet Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to boot! - that you can't help but wish the flight wouldn't end Friday in Los Angeles."
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"Space shuttle Endeavour's final ferry flight has in a way become a traveling museum, an early start to its exhibit at the California Science Center," said Robert Pearlman, editor of the memorabilia and space history website, a partner and contributor. Find out how to watch Endeavour land live here. NASA will broadcast Endeavour's arrival at Dryden live on NASA TV and via an online webcast. (home of retired astronaut Mark Kelly, Endeavour's last commander), before arriving at Dryden at 12 p.m.
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On the way, they will fly over White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces, N.M., (a backup shuttle landing site) and Tucson, Ariz. Today, Endeavour and its carrier plane, called the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, will soar over Austin and refuel at Biggs Army Base in El Paso, Texas, before continuing west toward California. The shuttle left its Florida home port at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday to kick off the three-day trip, which is NASA's final space shuttle ferry flight. EDT/1203 GMT) and is headed for NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility in Southern California later today, its final pit stop before arriving in Los Angeles on Friday. 20) on the second leg of its cross-country trip to Los Angeles, where the orbiter will ultimately become a museum piece.Įndeavour, riding piggyback atop a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet, took off from Ellington Field in Houston at 7:03 a.m. NASA's space shuttle Endeavour left Houston for the Golden State today (Sept. California, here shuttle Endeavour comes, right back where it started from.