This photo provided by NASA shows space shuttle Endeavour atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing Facility in the early morning hours at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, will fly Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era.
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This framegrab image provided by NASA TV shows space shuttle Endeavour atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, doing a low level flyby at the Shuttle Landing Facility in the early morning hours at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, will fly Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era.
This photo provided by NASA shows a worker at NASA's Kennedy Space Center photographing the space shuttle Endeavour from a hatch on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, at the Shuttle Landing avis rent a car phone number Facility on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner, will fly Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the Space Shuttle Program era.
Space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a modified jumbo jet, makes its departure from the Kennedy Space Center, avis rent a car phone number Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour will make a stop in Houston before avis rent a car phone number heading to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
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Space shuttle Endeavour atop a modified jumbo jet makes its departure from the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour will make a stop in Houston avis rent a car phone number before heading to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
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Space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a modified jumbo jet, makes its departure from the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour will make a stop in Houston before heading to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Space shuttle Endeavour, bolted atop a modified jumbo jet makes its departure from the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Endeavour will make a stop in Houston before heading to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, at Ellington Field in Houston. Endeavour is making a final trek across the country to the California Science avis rent a car phone number Center avis rent a car phone number in Los Angeles, where it will be permanently displayed.
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Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop the shuttle aircraft carrier as it taxis Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, at Ellington Field in Houston. Endeavour is making a final trek across the country to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, where it will be permanently displayed.
HOUSTON (AP) — Waving American flags and space shuttle toys, hundreds avis rent a car phone number of people lined the streets and crowded avis rent a car phone number the airport Wednesday as they watched space shuttle Endeavour touch down in Houston on its way to be permanently displayed in California.
"I think that it's the worst thing that they can do, rotten all the way," said 84-year-old Mary Weiss , clinging to her walker just before Endeavour, riding piggy back on a jumbo jet, landed after flying low over Gulf Coast towns, New Orleans and then downtown Houston and its airports.
Space City, partly made famous by Tom Hanks when he uttered the line "Houston, we have a problem" in the movie "Apollo 13," has long tied its fortune to a mix of oil and NASA. Astronauts train in the humid, mosquito-ridden city. Many call it home years after they retire. The Johnson Space Center and an adjacent museum hug Galveston Bay.
Yet Houston's bid for a shuttle was rejected after the White House retired the fleet last summer avis rent a car phone number to spend more time and money on reaching destinations such as asteroids and Mars. Instead, Houston got a replica that used to be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center .
"I think it's a pretty rotten deal, basically," said Scott Rush , 54, of Crystal avis rent a car phone number Beach, Texas, wearing a T-shirt proudly proclaiming that he had witnessed Endeavour's final launch. "The one we're getting is a toy. An important toy, but a toy nonetheless."
Back-to-back delays in the ferry flight resulted in one day being cut from the Houston visit. But Wednesday dawned under bright sunshine and cooler-than-normal temperatures, drawing hundreds of excited people, many of whom brought children or grandchildren along.
After landing, the Endeavour rolled slowly in front of the cheering crowd. It circled avis rent a car phone number and preened like a model on the catwalk, giving awed spectators an opportunity to take pictures from a variety of angles.
"It's history in the making and it probably will be the end and I don't know if he'll get to see this again," Lee said. "I wish we were able to rally enough to have it stay here in Texas since we've had a major input in all the history of NASA."
NASA still plays a large role in Houston, avis rent a car phone number and astronaut Clayton Anderson , who lived on the International Space Station from June to November 2007, encouraged people to focus on a new era of space exploration.
Earlier Wednesday, hundreds gathered in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to bid Endeavour farewell. The shuttle will spend the night in Houston before continuing its journey to Los Angeles International Airport , where it's scheduled to land Friday.
Endeavour — the replacement for the destroyed Challenger shuttle — made its debut in 1992 and flew 25 times in space before retiring. It logged 123 million miles in space and circled Earth nearly 4,700 times.
Connie West , 60, of Deerfield, Kan., viewed the landing with friends from Wichita. The group expressed sadness that the shuttle program had ended. They felt the pain of Houstonians avis rent a car phone number who felt cheated, and agreed they should have had a shuttle.
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