After NASA decommissioned the space shuttles the Endeavour as flown to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. As part of the trip it did a low flyby over the NASA Ames Research Center and to celebrate they opened their doors for an afternoon of events and the chance to watch the shuttle fly by. We were lucky enough to be living locally at the time, and be on their mailing list having attended a previous event. It’s really something to see a space shuttle mounted to the back of a jumbo jet fly so close overhead.