Endeavour was one of five space shuttles but one of only three to survive. “With all the taxpayer money, it wouldn’t have hurt.”ĭuring Endeavour’s 25 missions to space between 19, the craft serviced the International Space Station and repaired the Hubble Space Telescope. “It could have made a U-turn,” said Elaine Swanson, 61, who traveled from Redwood City at 6 a.m.
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TV cameras pointing in the wrong direction had to swing around at the last moment. “There’s a sense of pride and a little bit of sadness that the shuttle ride is over.”Ī few in the Moffett Field crowd shouted “Come back!” disappointed as the ferried shuttle flew past higher than originally planned. “This is a once-in-a-million-lifetimes,” said astronaut Steve Robinson, 56, a flight engineer with a total of four flights on Endeavour and Discovery.
Squinting at the horizon, they stared in awe as the shuttle appeared from behind the giant landmark Hangar One, dipped to about 800 feet and flew directly over the crowd. “The end of an era.”Ī little after 10:30 a.m., the shuttle reached Moffett Field, where 15,000 people - including astronauts and scientists who were part of the shuttle program - lined up along the tarmac for a mile. “It’s history,” said Evans, an Australia native who remembers watching the Apollo moon landing as a child. Oracle engineer Andrea Evans, 48, tracked the shuttle’s progress on her smartphone. Ever.”ĭown the Peninsula, it passed over Oracle, Facebook and Google. “We planned our run around this,” said Sara Borowski, 28, jogging through San Francisco. It was so cool!” she said, “and I’m not a space nut.”Īt San Francisco’s Crissy Field, crowds gathered on the piers for that post-card view of the Golden Gate Bridge. It flew over the East Bay, first over Walnut Creek, Oakland and Hayward, then looped around San Francisco and twice by the Golden Gate Bridge before heading down the Peninsula.Īlong the Hayward shoreline, some 200 people gathered, including naturalist Ann Graham. Friday morning, it took off from Edwards and about two hours later began delivering thrills to the Bay Area before zooming away to its final resting at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The shuttle and its carrier started their cross-country journey Wednesday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, stopping in Houston one night and at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert the next. “Waiting at #Apple #iphone5 or for #Endevour #SpotTheShuttle #OV105?” “What kind of geek are you?” tweeted Ira Feldman. Social media lit up with Twitter updates and snapshots of the Endeavour flying over telephone poles, golf courses and strip malls and passing NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field and the Monterey Bay Aquarium along the way.Īs one tweet pointed out, it was a day for Silicon Valley geeks to celebrate. When Endeavour rose suddenly, magically, above the trees at Theuerkauf Elementary School in Mountain View, hundreds of school children shrieked with delight and chased the spaceship, piggybacked on a 747, across the schoolyard.
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