About three weeks ago the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles. Thursday evenings there was the start of the operations to transport it to the California Science Center to be exhibited at the Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion. Between the international airport it left from and its destination there are less than 20 km (about 12 miles) but the transport went on for almost three days.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has just been captured by the International Space Station’s robotic arm. It was the culmination of a very slow and cautious approach maneuver, considering that some hours the Dragon approached a few feet at a time to verify each time that everything was as expected.

Yesterday, when in the U.S.A. it was evening, the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral starting the CRS-1 (Cargo Resupply Service 1) mission, the first of 12 missions to send the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station with various cargos then return to Earth, again with various cargos.

Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles after a long journey atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), the 747 specially modified to carry the Space Shuttles, which can’t fly on their own as a airplane. On October 12, they’ll start the complex operations to trasnport it to the California Science Center, where it will be exposed in the Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion from the end of October.

Yesterday, at the Kennedy Space Center, the Space Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis met, very probably for the last time, as they were moved during the stages of preparation for their transfer in what should be their final locations.