Slide Show: Cheers for arrival of Space Shuttle Trainer
Posted on July 01, 2012 at 02:10 AM EDT
Crowds cheered wildly as NASA’s Super Guppy flew low and slow over the Museum of Flight in Seattle and landed at Boeing Field around noon Saturday, June 30. The unique cargo plane was an about an hour late delivering its precious cargo - the crew compartment of the full sized Space Shuttle Trainer on which all 335 space shuttle astronauts trained. And now it’s here. Thousands of people had gathered earlier in the morning, with invited VIPs standing on a viewing balcony above the action, while…