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NASA Ames Hosts Endeavour Flyover Viewing Party Friday
Inclement weather postponed Space Shuttle Endeavour's departure from Florida, but local residents can still watch its farewell flight at the Ames Research Center.
You might want to shuffle your schedule a little for the shuttle.
NASA has invited the public to watch Space Shuttle Endeavour fly over the Ames Research Center Friday morning, Sept 21, during its final ferry flight from the Kennedy Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida to its new home at the California Science Center Los Angeles. Weather conditions caused delay of the flight by a day.
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Free to the public, the event begins at 8 a.m. with a welcome from Center Director Pete Worden and continues with highlights of the center's contributions to the space shuttle program. These include heat shield and wind tunnel testing, shuttle astronaut training, and computational modeling among others, according to a NASA Ames press release. Gates open at 6 a.m. PDT.
The celebration culminates with the planned mid-morning flyover of the space shuttle—mounted atop NASA's modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft—at about 1,500 feet. The timing depends on the weather, added NASA.
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Due to an expected increased of traffic in the vicinity, NASA Ames encourages attendees to take mass transit and carpool or, if driving, enter by the Ellis Gate at the Ellis Street exit of Hwy 101.
They also encourage Twitter users to use the hashtags #spottheshuttle and #OV105, Endeavour's orbiter vehicle designation. Don't forget to also tag it #MVPatch for photos as it flies over Mountain View!
Can't make it? Ames hopes to webcast the program and flyover on its UStream channel from 8-10 a.m.
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