I would consider going to see the shuttle but some of the neighborhoods it is travelling through are kind of rough and the traffic would probably suck. I think it leaves LAX and heads east to the Forum (where the Lakers and Kings used to play). That route can be bad, then it heads from the Forum to the museum near the Coliseum and that neighborhood is horrible.
Still a lot of people in SoCal worked on that program in form or another some snippets of which can be found on my CD thread:
Southern California: Aerospace Capital of the World