I just saw that the space shuttle flew over New York City last week. I couldn’t have made it there anyway, but it does sound like something that would be fun to watch.
Is there any schedule for flyovers in other cities in the future?
The last Space Shuttle mission ended on July 21, 2011. You probably saw a satellite.
No, he’s talking about the flights of the Discovery and Enterprise on the 747 carrier to their final “resting” places, the museums in Virginia and New York. Picture.
The Enveavour is going to be delivered to the California Science Center this fall, but it isn’t clear to me whether they will transport it by air which would allow some fly-bys in LA. I understand that the final transportation within LA will be done by truck, which is a huge undertaking.
But there is no campaign to simply fly space shuttles around various cities for people to look at. Those shuttles that were in the news were being moved from point A to point B to deliver them to museums.
Discovery was flown into Dulles last week, and Enterprise was flown into JFK on Friday. It’s not really an exhibition, those just happened to be the airports closest to their respective final resting places.
I found this:
If you life near either of those cities, you still have a shot. I couldn’t find when those will happen, though.
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I think Atlantis is already at the Kennedy Space Center, but it will be some time before that museum opens.
That should, in fact, be the case. Atlantis was the Orbiter for the final Space Shuttle mission (STS-135, in July 2011), and finished the mission by landing at KSC on July 21st. All three “functional” Orbiters (Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour) were being decommissioned at KSC before being sent to museums.
As Atlantis is only going “up the road” to the Visitor Complex at KSC, I highly doubt it’ll be taking a 747 flight before going into the museum.