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On April 12, 2011, the California Science Center received Space Shuttle Endeavour from NASA. [23] [24] [25] It arrived at the Science Center on October 14, 2016, after it made its epic journey through the streets of Los Angeles. [26] Before its arrival, a building was constructed to temporary house the Space Shuttle.
Discovery flew the ante-penultimate mission of the Space Shuttle program, STS-133, having launched on February 24, 2011. Endeavour flew STS-134 and Atlantis performed STS-135, NASA's last Space Shuttle mission. On February 24, 2011, Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39-A to begin its final orbital ...
III-443 Atlantis is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, [24]: III-456 Discovery is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, [24]: III-451 Endeavour is on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, [24]: III-457 and Enterprise is displayed at the Intrepid Museum in New York. [24]:
Today was a special day in history, especially for women in space. The first shuttle mission to be commanded by a woman, U.S. space shuttle Discovery completed a five-day mission on July 27th, 1999.
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 positioning had to be precise. 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 ...
John Michael "Mike" Lounge was born June 28, 1946, in Denver, Colorado, but considered Burlington, Colorado to be his hometown. He graduated from Burlington High School in 1964, then received a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1969 and a Master of Science degree in astrophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1970.
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 ...