Ever wondered how to burn your brand new tires within seconds? Mount them on a Space Shuttle! This is how they will look like after only one touch down. This is Endeavour’s tire set used for its last mission STS-134 in May/June 2011. And yes – I touched them.
And here it is. The ship in all its glory!
Upon arrival in L.A. the first stop was the California Science Center near Downtown to visit the new home of the Space Shuttle Endeavour which opened the week before. For this day all tickets were sold out and I bought tickets for the other Saturday which was originally planned for this and some other sightseeing. This and the photos before were taken there.
Interesting side note: My kindergarten’s name was “Kosmonaut”. 1986 we celebrated the launch of the Mir spacestation as well as the maiden flight of the Buran Orbiter in 1988. Never thought at that time, the first spacecraft I came that close would be a Space Shuttle.
And I’m glad it is the ship which carried a digital picture of my daughter during STS-134 as part of NASA’s Face to Space.
If you own a swimming pool and you do not want to waste time on filling it with water, you should use this machine and run water through the pipes and pumps behind these nozzles. After 25 seconds the job will be done!
…of the puzzle. And I think it should be more than obvious now. More to come in the next days.
Guess what it is! Taken somewhere in Los Angeles last week. It was a big wish of mine to see this and it came true.