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Everyone in El Lay was freaking the eff out!!

People went to their rooftops this afternoon to get the best sighting of the Endeavor space shuttle as it made its zany loop de loop on top of a 747 around Tinsel Town.

The shuttle spent crazy time in space before making its final landing at LAX on Friday — marking the end of NASA's space shuttle program. Sadface!

But what a great finale!!

As Endeavor taxied on in at the United Airlines hangar, one man popped out of the cockpit's roof to wave an American flag while bystanders' emotions began to pour out.

One viewer at LAX

Tags: challenger, endeavor, los angeles, nasa, photo, shuttle, space, space shuttle

She was a pioneer in the truest sense of the word.

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, has died at 61.

She struggled with pancreatic cancer for nearly a year-and-a-half but she was a woman used to facing adversity.

NASA exists within an interesting overlap between

Tags: american hero, astronauts, challenger, death, died, nasa, pancreatic cancer, passed away, sally ride, science