Space Shuttle Endeavour Stop in Houston on its Way to LA

Space shuttle Endeavour finally began its last journey to the Los Angeles museum after having delayed twice due to bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Endeavour, which is mounted atop a Boeing 747 jet, landed at Houston's Ellington Field about 10.40 a.m. CDT Wednesday.  

Hundreds of Houston residents gathered on the streets to take a glimpse of the space shuttle which is on its final trip to its permanent hope at the California Science Center (CSC).

Houston had earlier bid to have the space shuttle which retired in 2011, but the White House rejected the demand which didn't go well with some of the Houston residents. Despite feeling cheated, several gathered to take photographs of the shuttle, reported abc News.

After an overnight stay, the space shuttle will be flown from Houston early Thursday to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Before that, it will make a stop for fuel at Biggs Army Air Field in El Paso.  The space shuttle will stay at the Dryden Flight Research Center for the night before proceeding to the Los Angeles International Airport Friday (Sept. 21).  It will be moved to its permanent home at the CSC in October for public display, announced NASA.

Endeavour is expected to make low flyovers at about 1,500 feet above some locations on its scheduled flight path to LA.

NASA TV will webcast the events of space flight's arrivals. While Endeavour is one of the three spacecraft that retired last year, Discovery and Atlantis are other two. Endeavour is the youngest of NASA's fleet which has completed 25 missions since its first journey in 1992 until 2011.

Endeavour was built to replace the space shuttle Challenger that broke part killing seven crew members in January 1986. Most of Endeavour's work has been involved to build the International Space Station, a research laboratory orbiting some 250 miles above Earth.