Los Angeles isn’t just about movie stars and the Oscars, writes Sara Benson.

The final journey of the retired space shuttle Endeavour through Los Angeles has been delayed by trees along the route.

ENDEAVOUR blasted off on NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit as the mission commander’s wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands.