Complete boosters were not reused instead, various permutations and combinations of segments flew together on different flights. After splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean following a launch, every SRB was broken into four segments and cleaned thoroughly. Like the orbiter herself, Endeavour’s SRBs are flight-proven. Over a year later, the first SRB was lifted into place on November 7 th of 2023. The groundbreaking ceremony for the towering building took place on June 1 st. The facility was christened the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in honor of a philanthropist who supported the museum.īy mid-2022, the Science Center’s leaders felt confident that they would obtain enough funding to complete the exhibit. The required funding gradually arrived in the form of donations, large and small. It acquired a flight-worthy ET and SRBs and placed them in storage outside.
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Throughout the following decade, the Science Center prepared for the larger exhibition. Endeavour will be housed in the tapering cylindrical building at right. EDT from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, FL Landed September 20, 1992, 8:53. The completed Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will be an impressive facility. Space Shuttle Endeavour Launched September 12, 1992, 10:23:00 a.m. The Science Center still has several major milestones ahead of it – most importantly, more fundraising – but Endeavour’s lift was a major step towards the completion of the exhibition. The exhibit will be the only authentic Space Shuttle stack in existence. The orbiter Endeavour was lifted into the air and mated to a flightworthy External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters. The public was reminded of the Shuttle’s majesty last Monday when the California Science Center took a major step towards completing a one-of-a-kind display. As the most complex machines ever built, they stand as symbols of human ingenuity and the triumphs and tragedies which are intrinsic to exploration. Despite this, the elegant winged orbiters still hold a special place in American culture. Over 12 years have passed since the Space Shuttle program entered the history books with the bittersweet landing of STS-135. In October of 2012, the shuttle moved successfully and without incident through the streets of Los Angeles, an event captured on national television.The Space Shuttle Endeavour, encapsulated in a protective layer of shrink wrap, is attached to the External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters which will join her on display. Endeavour, the newest orbiter in NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet, lifted off from Pad 39B (at 7:40 p.m. The Space Shuttle Endeavour soars toward Earth orbit on the STS-49 mission with a crew of seven NASA astronauts. A video was also produced to show the conflicts and obstructions. The shuttle would rendezvous with a stranded communications satellite and return it to service. For the shuttle to move safely and successfully through the urban center of Los Angeles, DEA’s survey team used laser scanning technology to identify horizontal and vertical conflicts that would need to be avoided or temporarily removed along the proposed route.ĭEA’s 3D mobile laser scanning system provided a dense point cloud of data about the route in August of 2011. DEA employed 3D mobile laser scanning technology to collect data and identify obstacles along the 15-mile route.Įndeavour is 122 feet long, with a wingspan of 78 feet and a height of 58 feet, and weighs 175,000 pounds. The space shuttle Endeavour is shown docked at the International Space Station in this first-ever view of the two spacecraft together as seen by astronauts on a nearby Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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The shuttle traveled the streets of Los Angeles from Los Angeles International Airport to its final resting place, the California Science Center in Exposition Park. The Space Shuttle Endeavour has a new home in the City of Los Angeles, but getting there was no small feat.