Shuttle makes way through LA streets

The shuttle Endeavour has maintained a heading through the streets of Los Angeles toward its retirement home at a museum. Endeavour's final mission began when it departed from the Los Angeles International Airport before dawn Friday, rolling on a 160-wheeled carrier past diamond-shaped "Shuttle Xing" signs. Yesterday evening it stopped as crews spent hours transferring the shuttle to a special, lighter towing dolly. Then around midnight, it travelled over a bridge across Interstate 405, an especially tricky part of the complicated journey because of the size of the spacecraft and width of the bridge. The shuttle was pulled across the Manchester Boulevard bridge by a Toyota Tundra pickup, and the car company filmed the event for a commercial after paying for a permit, turning the entire scene into a movie set complete with special lighting, sound and staging. Police stopped traffic on the freeway below for the duration of the crossing, which took about three minutes. Crews preparing for the crossing had to take down power lines, leaving about 400 residents of surrounding Inglewood without power for what was expected to be several hours. Once on the other side, crews began...