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On October 30, 2012, the Space Shuttle Endeavour was opened to the public. [49] The shuttle was display inside the temporary Samuel Oschin Pavilion, [54] where guests offered to not only walk around Endeavour, but also under it, as the vehicle was displayed in the horizontal atop four friction-pendulum seismic isolators to protect it from ...
The space shuttle's arrival in California was a homecoming for Endeavour, which rolled off Rockwell International's production line in Palmdale in 1991, replacing Challenger, which exploded after ...
The museum includes many exhibits of aircraft and spacecraft, including Space Shuttle Endeavor, multiple hands-on galleries, special exhibitions, and IMAX movies. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, this museum is a public-private partnership between the State of California and the California Science Center Foundation.
The shuttle's nose was raised 200 feet into the night sky so that the rudder could clear 80 feet of space. Endeavour was then turned 17 degrees clockwise to provide adequate clearance for its 78 ...
Barring high winds or other bad weather, the orbiter will be lifted by two cranes late Monday in a move that could take up to 10 hours to complete.
Space shuttle Endeavour and the STS-126 crew land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. after completing a mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour lands back at Kennedy Space Center atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. After awakening, the crew of Endeavour got to work preparing for reentry. While working through the deorbit ...
NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday and attached to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be ...
Two giant rocket motors required to display the retired NASA space shuttle Endeavour as if it's about to blast off arrived Wednesday at a Los Angeles museum, completing their long journey from the ...