Endeavour

The space shuttle Endeavour makes a pass over San Francisco before making its final landing in Los Angeles. Today the shuttle flys for the last time before it is taken to the California Technology Museum. It is a sad day for all who followed the shuttle program and it is hard to see the last space craft end its career. The cost of space flight never came down to the levels predicted nor the risks never lessened. The Shuttle fleet did many great things and expanded our presence in space, it did what it was designed to do, build a space station, but with government officials always micro managing the projects at NASA, it was hard for the agency to have a long term plan and follow to it. The budget constantly changed and in-fighting and 'rice-bowl' wars pulled the agency in many different directions. I am sorry to see the shuttles go, but maybe some day we will have a system that we can be as proud of. The shuttles delivered.