SPACE TRAVEL The last voyage of the "Endeavour"

4700 time circles the Earth now fulfilled the American space shuttle "Endeavour" their last mission - and rolled into the museum. The transport of the giant bird was difficult. Closing the speed of sound, very comfortable walking pace, the shuttle took on his last journey.Admired by thousands of people, it was in Los Angeles from the airport to the California Science Center. There, the U.S. space shuttle by 30 October will be presented to the visitors. In order to facilitate the transport, 400 trees had to be felled along the route. Several power lines were severed, several hundred residents were without power for hours. Planning the transfer took almost a year, after all, the shuttle five stories high, and its wings have a wingspan of 24 meters. The cost of the path of the shuttle will be retired in more than ten million dollars. 

Even transferring to California on the back of a Boeing 747 was spectacular. The youngest starship space shuttle fleet in the U.S. since its maiden flight was in 1992 exactly 299 days in space and put in his 25 missions back more than 185 million kilometers. The end of May last year, finished her final space shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

Shuttles were too expensive

The U.S. space agency NASA has discontinued the shuttle program last year after three decades of the cost. In the coming years, Americans will have no more own way to transport people into space. U.S. astronauts must initially fly with Russian Soyuz to the ISS. The new US-capsule to be operational before 2015.