Space Shuttle Endeavour Final Flight

USWNN - The space shuttle Endeavour, the last of NASA's fleet that marked an era in American space exploration, landed today in Houston (Texas), on the back of a Boeing 747, on its final voyage bound for a museum in Los Angeles ( California).

Thousands of people in the "Space Coast" of Florida fired Endeavour this morning, boosted by a plane, Endeavour undertook last journey leaving behind scientific dreams realized and lost jobs.

A Boeing 747 of the U.S. space agency NASA, took off at 11.22 GMT time carrying on back the youngest of five space shuttle fleet.

The 747, along with the "Pathfinder," a C-9 which monitors the weather for the voyage, made several flights over the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral and then took westbound with past low over the center Stennis Space in Mississippi and Michoud Assembly Facility at NASA in New Orleans.

The duo landed in Houston (Texas) at 15:40 GMT.

On Thursday, the shuttle flight and transport undertaken to California, where the ship between 1992 and 2011 spent 299 days in 4671 orbits of the Earth, which totaled 197,761,261 kilometers, will be taken to a museum.

Among those who observed several low-altitude flights of the Boeing 747 and the "rider" in Houston was the astronaut Mark Kelly, who last year commanded Endeavour's final mission to the International Space Station (ISS), which was in turn the penultimate of a ferry.

"It's amazing, you have to see it," Kelly told NASA television. "It's amazing to see something that weighs more than 88 tons subject over another plane flying".

When the ferry docked at the ISS Commander Mark Kelly greeted his twin brother Scott Kelly, who was part of the crew of the orbiting outpost about 385 miles from Earth.

At dawn on Thursday September 20, the 747 and Endeavour will leave Houston.

They will make a refueling stopover Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso (Texas) flying low over the White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces (New Mexico) and the Center Dryden Flight Research at NASA, near the Base Edwards Air Force Base in California, before landing at noon at Dryden.

On Friday, the 747 and its cargo will depart Dryden flying low over northern California, near the Ames Research Center of NASA in Moffett Field, and several cities including Sacramento and San Francisco.

The plane made a flight low over several areas of Los Angeles before landing around noon (local time).

The U.S. shuttle, three of which were lost in conflagrations that claimed the lives of 14 astronauts were essential vehicles for the construction of the ISS, a project of more than 100,000 million dollars with the participation of sixteen countries.

The Endeavour docked once in a Russian space station Mir and the ISS 12 times.

On 11 October last year, NASA transferred title and ownership of the ship at the Space Science Center of California and, despite the delay of a day, the agency maintains its relocation program Endeavour International Airport Los Angeles on Friday, September 21, quoted by EFE.

United States ended the shuttle program last year and now works in partnership with private industry to build other types of vehicles carrying astronauts to near-Earth orbits.

The ferries were leaving for vehicles designed to orbit like rockets and return to Earth as gliders, with a cargo hold that brought thousands of pieces of equipment to the ISS, a robotic arm that helped build capacity and space for half a dozen astronauts .

United States ended the shuttle program last year and now works in partnership with private industry to build other mobile.