Endeavour on the road again..

The space shuttle Endeavour on the streets of Los Angeles as it heads to its new home at the California Science Center, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Endeavour, built as a replacement for space shuttle Challenger, completed 25 missions, spent 299 days in orbit, and orbited Earth 4,671 times while traveling 122,883,151 miles. Beginning Oct. 30, the shuttle will be on display in the CSC’s Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion, embarking on its new mission to commemorate past achievements in space and educate and inspire future generations of explorers.

This is the normal NASA talk, but I am sad to see the shuttle fleet be put in museums rather than put into space. This is another short-sighted move on the US Government. And of course NASA will always swing from one direction to the other at the whim of the current administrations wishes.... We would never have gone to the moon the way we did, when we did today, to much crap goes on and too many fingers it in the way.