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"Space Shuttle Endeavour at the Forum" - On the Streets of LA

For the WWP Equinox event Necessity I was blessed with the last opportunity to see Endeavour in flight, and shortly thereafter, in October 2012, Shuttle Endeavour hit the road, hitch-hiking from LAX to the Callifornia Science Center on a customized, supercharged, low-rider transporter built for comfort and manuverability and a top speed of 2 mph. The shuttle rarely hit 2 mph, and was mostly plodding along at top rates of 1/3 to 1/2 mph as the Streets of LA, and their denizens, provided quite a challenge to Endeavour, sometimes creating bottlenecks in street width or the push of the throng of tens of thousands that came out in spite of Mayor Villaraigosa's admonishment that this wasn't to be a parade or citywide event (circus). Everywhere along the path to the CSC from LAX, the shuttle was swarmed and greeted and gawked at in much greater numbers than expected anywhere along the route. At the Forum, 14,000 were expected, but it seemed more like over 20,000 came by for an event recognizing former astronauts and the CSC. This pano was shot after the event as I got ahead of the crowd to see Endeavour pass East of the Forum on it's way to Crenshaw.
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Please visit our exophrenic section WWP which hosts my contributions to the World Wide Panorama events. Events are hosted by the UC Berkeley Geo-Images Project and are sponsored by the Geography Computing Facility at the University of California Berkeley.
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