Tool Talk
Picture Forum => Picture Forum => Topic started by: Papaw on September 20, 2012, 09:56:03 AM
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Shuttle was here in Houston overnight on its way to California. I couldn't make the fly-over and landing, but was out this morning at sunrise to watch it take off on its last trip.
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Great photos Papaw! Thanks.
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It amazes me that the plane with the load it's carrying could even get off the ground. I watched a news video of it.
Mel
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Papaw, I googled it amd found it was at the Ellington field, I wondered if you had make the trek out to Intercontinental at sunrise!
I have a picture from the early 80's when I lived in League City (south of Houston) of the shuttle flying back from out west, it made a wide turn to line up for Ellington and we got some nice shots of them. It is quite a site to see them flying piggyback!.
Brian L.
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I had always wanted to see a shuttle launch in person, but never had the opportunity.
It must have been awesome to witness that piggy-back flight, but I can't stop thinking about the colossal waste of taxpayer money used to move these relics back and forth across the country; especially after the shuttle program has ended.
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I don't imagine it costs much more than it does to move a WWII battleship or carrier to a dock to become a museum.
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I'm just not sure why the Smithsonian NAS Museum had to move out Enterprise only to receive Discovery.
Regardless, I did enjoy the Endeavour pictures.