Shuttle Endeavour soars over Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) - The Space Shuttle Endeavor soared over Austin at 7:40 a.m. Thursday as it made its way from Houston toward its retirement home in California

It departed the Houston area at 7 a.m. and was heading for a refueling stop in El Paso.

The space shuttle Endeavour is traveling atop a 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

• Photos of the flyover

After the refueling stop at Biggs, the SCA and Endeavour will make low-level flybys of the White Sands Missile Range and NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, as well as Tucson, Arizona en route to California. The flyover of Tucson will take place approximately an hour and 15 minutes after departure from Biggs.

Arrival at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base is scheduled for approximately noon PDT where it will be spending the night.

During the cross-country ferry flight, social media users are encouraged to share their Endeavour sightings using the hashtags #spottheshuttle and #OV105, Endeavour's vehicle designation.