D23 – B747

Space Shuttle Endeavour over Houston downtown, on its final ferry flight to Los Angeles.

After a 12-mile creep through Los Angeles city streets on a 160-wheeled carrier, the Endeavour is now on display in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California Science Center.

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    NASA’s DC-8 airborne science laboratory banks low over the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.