Time Lapse of Endeavour's Final Ride 59
New submitter tippen writes "A year after space shuttle Endeavour reached its final resting place at the California Science Center, photographers have released a fascinating time lapse video of the shuttle's final ride from Kennedy Space Center to LAX, then through 12 miles of city streets to the museum. Sad to see the end of an era."
Don't Be Short-Sighted (Score:5, Informative)
On the whole the shuttle was a boondoggle. It is best that the program is over. Yeah it had some advantages, but overall it did not deliver what it was promised to deliver.
The Shuttle Program, like all of the manned space programs before it, delivered an immense amount of technology development that has advanced our knowledge of materials sciences and engineering in general beyond any level before it.
You can't base the value of the Shuttle Project simply on some science fiction ideal of a "space plane" and what such a thing could do.
By the way, without the Shuttle Program, the Hubble Telescope would have died long ago.