NASA officials are postponing the takeoff
of the space shuttle Endeavour by one hour Friday morning because of fog in San
Francisco.
The delay will "give us a better
chance of having the fog burn off," NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center
said in a tweet.
The new schedule calls for Endeavour to
take off from Edwards Air Force Base in northern Los Angeles County at 8:15
a.m. instead of 7:15 a.m. That would mean Endeavour would fly over the Capitol
in Sacramento at about 9:30 a.m. instead of 8:30 a.m., before flying over San
Francisco and Monterey.
The delay would mean the space shuttle
would re-enter Los Angeles airspace during lunchtime, entering the region
around 11:30 a.m. and touching down about an hour later at Los Angeles
International Airport.
The decision to delay the shuttle's path
over California by one hour was jointly made by NASA, the Federal Aviation
Administration and the California Science Center museum.
Californians have been eagerly awaiting the
arrival of Endeavour, which will be retired for display at the California
Science Center. The space shuttle left Houston on Thursday morning, passed
through Tucson, and landed Thursday afternoon at Edwards Air Force Base for an
overnight fueling stop.
After it lands at LAX on Friday, the
shuttle will be housed at a United Airlines hangar until Oct. 12, when it will
begin a two-day celebratory trek through the city's streets to the museum's new
Samuel Oschin display pavilion.
Endeavour will fly over at least the
following sites:
• Los Angeles City Hall
• California Science
Center
• Getty Center
• Griffith Observatory
• Queen Mary
• Aquarium of the Pacific
in Long Beach
• Malibu, Venice and
Huntington beaches
• Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
• Universal Studios
• Disneyland
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