Space Shuttle Endeavor’s final ferry flight voyage

Stitch’s Adventure Club adventured to see the final voyage (to it’s new home) of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.  Stitch didn’t want Wrangler’s Scorch’s once in a lifetime opportunity to pass by having to babysit him, so he stayed near all the food trucks and had coffee, while Scorch captured the shuttle on it’s last ferry flight.

We hung out at NASA AMES RESEARCH / Moffett Field Air Field to await the fly over.

Some information about NASA Ames:

Ames was the second of NASA’s 10 field

centers, founded Dec. 20, 1939, as an aeronautics

research laboratory and named for National

Advisory Committee for Aeronautics chairperson

Dr. Joseph S. Ames. In 1958, it became part of

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA.)

Ames’ prime location in the heart of California’s

Silicon Valley at the core of the research

cluster of high-tech companies, universities and

laboratories affords outstanding opportunities

for innovative partnerships with the nation’s

technological, academic and entrepreneurial

leaders that helps make future space exploration

a reality.

Some facts about Space shuttle Endeavor:

Endeavor was NASA’s fifth and final space shuttle to be built. It was a replacement for Space Shuttle Challenger.

It was named after a ship chartered to traverse the South Pacific in 1768 and captained by 18th century explorer James Cook.

Endeavor completed 25 missions, spent 299 days in orbit, and orbited Earth 4,671 times while traveling 122,883,151 miles.

Like shuttles Discovery, Enterprise and Atlantis, Endeavor is embarking on its next mission – to inspire the next generation of explorers and engineers at the California Science Center.

Information about Ames and Space Shuttle obtained from NASA website.