NASA's 747 Carried a Space Shuttle Over Hollywood

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On September 21, 2012, NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft carried the space shuttle Endeavour low over Los Angeles, past the Hollywood sign, Griffith Observatory and downtown, with NASA F/A-18 chase jets alongside as safety chase (an "extra set of eyes" watching for trouble, NASA says, and the camera platform that filmed most of this footage), then landed at Los Angeles International Airport. It was the final leg of Endeavour's last ferry flight, on its way to permanent display at the California Science Center. NASA says this tour was the last time a space shuttle was aloft, either in space or in the air.

To carry an orbiter, NASA's two carrier 747s had all interior furnishings and equipment behind the front doors removed, three mounting struts on top of the fuselage, and two extra vertical fins on the ends of the horizontal stabilizer for directional stability. With a shuttle on top, typical range was about 1,000 nautical miles (1,850 km). It was also the first time a space shuttle had landed at LAX.

Chief pilot Jeff Moultrie, in command of the Los Angeles tour with co-pilot Bill Rieke, remembers looking up at this same jet as a teenager in Huntsville, Alabama. The radio in the film is the real LA Tower landing clearance to "Astro 95 heavy", the carrier jet's call sign, recorded on NASA's chase-plane video. The 1970s footage shows the same jet, NASA 905, carrying the test orbiter Enterprise.

Video: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (chase-plane and ground cameras), NASA Johnson Space Center ("Shuttle Carrier Aircraft"). NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft fact sheet: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-013-DFRC.html NASA, Endeavour's Tour of California: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/endeavours-tour-of-california-56/ NASA Armstrong chase-plane video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVPNDhOWutk

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