A lone desert Joshua tree greeted the arrival of Space Shuttle Endeavour at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, May 1, 2001.
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A lone desert Joshua tree greeted the arrival of Space Shuttle Endeavour at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, May 1, 2001. A large drag chute helped slow Endeavour on the runway. After mounting the shuttle on a converted 747 airliner at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Endeavour will be carried back to the Kennedy Space Center for its next mission. Weather in Florida necessitated landing in California.
Shuttle Crew: Commander Kent Rominger; Pilot Jeffrey Ashby; and Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni, and Yuri Lonchakov. May 1, 2001NASA / Photo Carla Thomas