Endeavour over San Francisco

I love the photos of the space shuttle Endeavour flying through Houston, so I looked and found more striking images taken in San Francisco, courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle.

(AP Photo/NASA, Carla Thomas) Photo: Carla Thomas, Associated Press/SF

In this photo provided by NASA, space shuttle Endeavour and its 747 carrier aircraft soar over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco during the final portion of its tour of California, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. 

 

(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) Photo: Ezra Shaw, Getty Images/SF

"Look, up in the sky!  It's a bird!  It's a plane!... No, it's ..." the Space Shuttle Endeavour! (not Superman this time).  I love the city's horizon with a hint of the Golden Gate Bridge.

[Note:  The editors at the San Francisco Chronicle converted this image to black and white.  It does give the image a classic vintage look, don't you think?]


Thank-you to the San Francisco Chronicle for sharing these photographs.

One last photo to remind us of the true travel that the Endeavour was built to make ... and its original piggy-back partner.

Space shuttle Endeavour helped restore confidence in manned space flight after the 1986 Challenger disaster. Photograph: Scott Audette/Reuters