This film, titled “Mission 26,” captures the entire process. It is the handiwork of a team of photographers led by Matthew Givot, who organized a four-day tailgate of the shuttle to watch its awesome ride from LAX to the museum in a series of photographs and videos. Endeavour crawled at a steady pace to give time for construction crews to make sure the spaceship didn’t snag any power lines or trees. Thousands of people turned out to see the beautiful machine, one of the most complex pieces of hardware ever built.
“This has been an amazing experience that I will never forget,” Givot wrote on the video’s Vimeo page. “My hope is that this film will show you the amount of dedicated people and teamwork that it took to get the Endeavour to its new home.”
Endeavour is the youngest of NASA’s shuttle fleet, and started operations in 1992. It flew 25 times into space and completed its last mission in May 2011. During that time, it helped built the International Space Station and delivered scientific experiments and crews to the station over its life.
Video: Givot/Vimeo