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Share Your Shots of the Space Shuttle

Share your photos of, and thoughts about Space Shuttle Endeavour's farewell tour here, where Patch has published essential links and information, on this historic morning.

Did you witness history Friday morning?

The Space Shuttle Endeavour made its once-in-a-lifetime farewell tour over Northern California, sometime beginning about 9:30 a.m.

Whether you’ve got a phone camera or a Nikon digital SLR, we want to see what you saw. Share your pictures in this gallery with your fellow Patch users.

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How? Just click on the "upload" button at the top. Include in the caption where you shot them, and what was going through your mind, or what did you say to your friends. (You can put images on the NASA’s Flickr Group as well, at  http://www.flickr.com/groups/spaceshuttleendeavour

Here is our list of the most essential information as of Friday morning, we provide you what you need to know: 

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  1. NASA will issue news of any changes, such as the one-hour takeoff delay time of 8:15 a.m., announced Thursday: http://www.nasa.gov/news/releases/latest/index.html
  2. The flight path take Space Shuttle Endeavour over the San Francisco Bay Area about 9:30 a.m., roughly following U.S. Highway 101 and appearing over NASA-Ames about 10 a.m., then the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Vandenberg Air Force Base. It will fly over Los Angeles in the late morning.
  3. If  you spot the shuttle during the four-and-a-half-hour period, use Twitter hashtags #spottheshuttle and #OV105, Endeavour's vehicle designation.
  4. NASA will webstream the Endeavour’s progress beginning at 8 am. via: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

What do you think about the Space Shuttle Endeavour's visit to Northern California? Share your thoughts in the comments section below. 


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