<p>Californians: Did anyone else catch the space shuttle fly-over on Friday morning? </p>
<p>Sacramentans were treated to a spectacular once-in-a-lifetime sight as Endeavour flew the last-ever flight of the STS program, low (1500 feet) and slow. It was thrilling to see. </p>
<p>[Endeavor</a> sighting over Sacramento, raw footage - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsvSJ4gHSBU]Endeavor”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsvSJ4gHSBU)</p>
<p>It was amazing, flew right over the location where we were, captured great images</p>
<p>All my family and friends sent images they took when it passed over the San Francisco Bay Area. It must have been amazing to see.</p>
<p>I live right near the Vandenberg AFB. Got a great up close view yesterday morning.</p>
<p>We watched a double fly by with the folks at JPL. We cried.</p>
<p>It was incredible. Flew by USC and the Science center twice.</p>
<p>Love the powerfully emotional response that the final shuttle piggyback flights have gotten.</p>
<p>A photo showed up on my fb page yesterday from someone in the CA Bay area. The way they described the photo I thought it was going to be of the Endeavor flyover. …
It was a photo of the Chick-Fil-A that just opened in the area :eek:</p>
<p>It flew almost directly over UCLA, and we got a very good look at it from the roof. Interesting to see, for sure. The end of an era, eh? </p>
<p>That said, I’m still disgusted by the removal of so many trees to make the transportation possible, eventual replanting or no. LA suffers from a severe lack of foliage, and losing so many trees is a huge loss, even if many of them weren’t very large.</p>
<p>It isn’t like they are 100 year old trees. They will be replanted. Unfortunately there isn’t any other route.</p>
<p>Pictures from USC [Endeavour</a> flies over USC - a set on Flickr](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/universityofsoutherncalifornia/sets/72157631591109492/]Endeavour”>Endeavour flies over USC | Flickr)</p>
<p>Three trees planted for every one taken out. I was against it at first, but after reading the plan…I have no problems with it.</p>
<p>I took my class of 3rd graders out to the playground to view it. They were so thrilled! Before we looked at images of the shuttles and talked about them. Many students in my class didn’t even know what the shuttle was.</p>
<p>I had a chance to see the shuttle’s last flight, but I was in a meeting when it was flying over the building where I was… :(</p>
<p>I went up on the roof of my building and got to watch it do a few turns over Pasadena before heading down to LA.</p>
<p>It passed over our house as well. And S2 saw it from campus. Soon, we’ll get to visit it at the Science Center. Can’t wait.</p>
<p>My son saw it fly in from the ocean from the roof of his office building and it flew right past my husband’s office window.</p>
<p>Ironically I was in the air flying from Santa Ana and the pilot told us to look straight down and we saw it from the top. Luckily my W and were on the right side of the plane. Wish I could have taken a picture.</p>
<p>Seeing it in the air would have been fun!</p>
<p>Happened to have the day off and went downtown Sacramento, found the roof of a parking garage and got some great shots. It was pretty neat to see.</p>
<p>Our local cynical radio hosts were wondering why people were all excited to watch a 747 with the shuttle on top fly around for a few minutes. I think it was because this was the farewell flight of the shuttle system, so it was somewhat sad to see, IMHO.</p>
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“It isn’t like they are 100 year old trees. They will be replanted. Unfortunately there isn’t any other route”</p>
<p>Yes, there was a great one, Endeavour should have stayed at Mission Control in Houston. No trees needed to be chopped down.</p>
<p>We’ll give you the space shuttle back when you bring home one of our Mars rovers. ;)</p>
<p>Good one, Racin, how about if we say you are free to go claim it?</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Voyager is about to start paying out-of-solar system tuition…hope we can afford it!</p>