Yes, that's a huge, 450-feet crane (and a smaller one, too). At 10 p.m. tonight, the cranes will slowly, slowly, slowly start to lift Space Shuttle Enveavor into its final, upright position, surrounded by booster rockets and whatever else she needs. This is her final resting place (just over ten years ago, as we were getting ready to sell the Hoover Street house, I saw her sailing slowly, slowly past on her last flight, like a great big airborne whale. Maybe tomorrow, if I park up on the roof again, I'll see if her 155-foot body has been hauled into position by tomorrow (apparently it could take anything between 4 and 24 hours, which seems a little bit vague and uncertain. And slow).
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