Photo Gallery: Space shuttle passes over La Cañada High School

The space shuttle Endeavour on top of a transport 747 banks over the La Canada High School football field after a pass over JPL during it’s trip to LAX on Friday, September 21, 2012. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Sept. 21, 2012 2:35 PM PT

Share via
- Facebook
- X
- Email

As the space shuttle Endeavor flew by the Hollywood sign around 12:10 p.m., onlookers at the Griffith Observatory -- some of whom had been waiting since 6 a.m. -- hooped and hollered. “That’s the money shot,” said Larry Unser in from St. Louis to visit his son in L.A. “I almost hate taking (pictures) because then you miss it.”

Photo Gallery: Space shuttle passes overhead

La Canada High School students take pictures with their phones of the space shuttle Endeavour’s fly over the school’s football field on Friday, September 21, 2012, after making a pass over JPL (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Students at St. Francis High School line the balconies to get a glimpse of the space shuttle Endeavour during its pass over JPL on Friday, September 21, 2012. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Monterey Park resident Maria Jimenez shows granddaughter Laura, 1, where the space shuttle Endeavour will pass over JPL on Friday, September 21, 2012. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

People line Oak Grove Dr. at Foothill Blvd. in La Canada waiting to see the space shuttle Endeavour as it passes over JPL on Friday, September 21, 2012. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

Student Lauren Risha, 12, takes a picture of the space shuttle Endeavour as it passes over JPL on Friday, September 21, 2012. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)

La Canada High School students walk onto the football field to wait for the space shuttle Endeavour to do its flyby over JPL on Friday, September 21, 2012. (Roger Wilson/Staff Photographer)