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Photographers and filmmakers were on hand to document this once-in-forever moment in history. Police controlled traffic engineers and technicians lifted power lines and took down traffic lights while approximately 1.5 million people lined the sidewalks to celebrate the event. The space shuttle Endeavour will parade in front of the public as it makes its way from the Los Angeles airport to the California Science Center, its museum retirement home, on Friday and Saturday. At 78 feet wide, 57 feet high and 122 feet long - longer than two school buses - navigating the streets of Los Angeles and Inglewood required the guidance and skill of over 100 people. In addition to space shuttle Endeavour, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will display 150 educational exhibits, including other spacecraft and a number of aircraft. After landing at Los Angeles International Airport, the biggest adventure was yet to come, transporting Endeavour through the heart of urban Los Angeles to its new home at the California Science Center. The nose, the forward underside and crew cabin of the space shuttle Endeavour approach first as the STS-134 vehicle prepares to dock with the International Space Station on (Flight. Space shuttle Endeavours final journey was a 12-mile ride from LAX, through Inglewood, to the California Science Center in Exposition Park. After arrival, Endeavour honored many California landmarks as it flew over the State from Sacramento to Southern California while onlookers marveled at the sight all along the way. Endeavour first flew on the back of a Boeing 747 from Cape Canaveral, Florida to Edwards Air Force Base in California, while making several stops along the way. “Moving space shuttle Endeavour across the United States was a massive undertaking.