Disney Imagineering's Chris Gabriel became the only person to ever mount cameras on a Space Shuttle, it is believed. He worked directly with NASA and Boeing engineers to ensure that nothing on Endeavour itself was disturbed, while meeting production requirements.
Peter Janos and Sara Weisfeldt of Turner/CNN, along with Google, pulled off live-to-web streaming from a moving location by using a portable broadcast system on the 68-hour move through the streets.
The groundbreaking effort to capture the shuttle's final journey has already resulted in two shorts playing at the Science Center, where more than one million visitors have viewed the shuttle since it's arrival. The recently opened "Mission 26: The Big Endeavour" exhibition houses a collection of more than 80 photographs captured during the journey. And there's also a small theater environment to show one of the videos with digital projectors.
At the peak of video coverage, 14 camera units filmed the landing at LAX.