Page 2 September 27 , 2012 City of Champions Prepares to Welcome Space Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles Flying on the back of a specially modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, Endeavour arrived at LAX on Friday, Sept. 21. Endeavour will spend a few weeks at a United Airlines hangar undergoing preparations for transport and display. Endeavour will then travel east along Manchester Boulevard from Los Angeles International Airport and rest at Inglewood City Hall for a ceremony marking its arrival and officially sending it to its final home at the California Science Center. Inglewood Mayor James Butts, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Senator Roderick Wright, Assembly member Steven Bradford and the Inglewood City Council are scheduled to speak. Endeavour will travel a total of 12 miles, the only one of NASA’s retired shuttle fleet to arrive at its final destination by way of city streets. It will travel east along Manchester, turn north onto Crenshaw Blvd. and turn east onto Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. before arriving at the California Science Center at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. Photos by Dirk Dewachter. New Pool from front page Photo by Catarah L. Hampshire. Photo by Catarah L. Hampshire.
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