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Shuttle Endeavour rides through LA

10:05, Oct 13 2012

 

The space shuttle Endeavour is rolling again early on Saturday after an hours-long delay as crews prepared it to cross a major Los Angeles interstate overpass.

The shuttle began its journey early on Friday being towed slowly through the streets of Los Angeles to a museum where it will go on permanent display.

On Friday evening it stopped as crews spent hours transferring the shuttle to a special, lighter towing dolly.

Then at around midnight, it began the trip over a bridge across Interstate 405, one of the trickiest parts of its complicated journey.

The shuttle was pulled across the Manchester Boulevard bridge by a Toyota Tundra pickup, and the car company filmed the event for an advert after paying for a permit and turning the entire scene into a movie set complete with special lighting, sound and staging.

Crews preparing for the crossing had to take down power lines, leaving about 400 residents of surrounding Inglewood without power for what was expected to be several hours.

 

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