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Friday. Space Shuttle Day. Sacramento.
The Space Shuttle Endeavor with its follow-jet visiting Sacramento
Today was different. Oh sure, it started out the same as any other Friday with a big smile and maybe a little dance, but there was a Space Shuttle coming my way and this was a bigger Friday than usual.
Yep, my Canon 7D was ready with a cleared off memory card and freshened batteries, and my eye was ready to see a special NASA space plane piggy-backing a ride atop a specially built 747 across the country. Oh, and it was going to receive clear air over Sacramento and would be flying at 1,500′, which is REALLY low for a plane usually carrying a payload of nearly 500,000 pounds.
Space Shuttle Endeavor was launched out of Earths gravitational pull 25 times and helped build out the International Space Station twelve times. It was a workhorse worthy of any accolades you can think or speak, and it was flying over Our Town USA! Today’s journey would end in Los Angeles where it would ultimately transport to a museum for public viewing shackled to the ground like a prisoner. As if gravity wasn’t enough to keep it Earth-bound, its’ engines were decommissioned too. Such is the life of our iron-heros! Today was a day for NASA to show-off a little and do one last song-and-dance for the people.
One of those people was ME, and I took some photos. One of them made the final cut and was worthy of sharing….with YOU.
So without further adeiu, click on this. Share if you like.
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The Pictures Just Keep Comin’
This is the view of Old Sacramento from the CalSTRS building…..15th floor! CalSTRS is the short version of California State Teachers Retirement System and the building is just two years old. As a matter of interest, I am told the building sways on a windy day. Now wouldn’t THAT be odd?!
Old Sacramento from up high
Bridge Over Troubled Waters?
Tower Bridge spanning the Sacramento River
Definitely a bridge. Definitely over water. I’m not certain it is a bridge over “troubled” waters but hey, YOU try to write that phrase without singing at least PART of the Simon & Garfunkel song of the same name (for the young uns out there Simon & Garfunkel were a very talented song writing team during the ’70’s. After much drama they split. Check it out when you have some time.) inside your head.
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