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In a milestone, the Los Angeles home of the retired space shuttle Endeavour broke ground Wednesday on a permanent museum, which ultimately envisions the spacecraft displayed as if ready for launch.
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 ...
Space Shuttle Atlantis welcome home ceremony after last mission Space Shuttle Atlantis begins the last mission of the Space Shuttle program. Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down for the final time, July 21, 2011, at the end of STS-135. Empty status board in the Vehicle Assembly Building. The retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet took place ...
Designated a Challenger Learning Center, [7] the museum has a variety of camps, workshops, and other monthly events to generate interest in STEM, and hands-on exhibits.Now 20,000 square feet, the two-story building has a robotics lab, HD computer lab, and a wide range of interactive exhibits on Space Shuttle operations, living and working on the International Space Station, exploration of the ...
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
The lengthy process of putting the retired space shuttle Endeavour on display in the vertical launch position will begin this month in Los Angeles. The California Science Center announced Thursday ...
The Intrepid Museum announced in May 2011 that it would acquire the Space Shuttle Enterprise. [148] [149] It initially planned to exhibit the Space Shuttle on Pier 86, but then announced plans to display the spacecraft in a parking lot across 12th Avenue, [150] prompting U.S. senator Sherrod Brown to ask that NASA award the shuttle to another ...