Nasa’s retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late on Monday to be mated to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be uniquely displayed as if it is about to blast off. A massive crane delicately began lifting the orbiter, which is […]
Officials at the California Science Center in Exposition Park were close to completing a dream launched 30 years ago as they worked to lift the space shuttle Endeavour from its current horizontal position into a vertical ready-for-launch position Monday night. The painstaking process involved putting the massive shuttle in a sling, hoisting it over a […]
The space shuttle Endeavour will be lifted into place at its museum-exhibit home early Tuesday morning (Jan. 30), and you can watch the action live. A 450-foot-tall (137 meters) crane will install Endeavour at its designated spot in the California Science Center “in a massive and technically challenging process that has never before been accomplished […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA’s retired Space Shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday to be mated to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be uniquely displayed as if it is about to blast off. A massive crane delicately began lifting the […]
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NASA’s last-remaining, built-for-flight space shuttle external tank finally took to the sky, albeit for only two brief hops above Los Angeles. In what was originally planned as an overnight move but extended into a two-day process due to wind concerns and added caution, External Tank-94 (ET-94) was taken aloft by two large cranes and lowered […]
With the end of 2023 comes the end of an endeavor — or rather Endeavour — as the retired NASA space shuttle goes off public view for the next few years. The California Science Center in Los Angeles has exhibited OV-105, better known as the orbiter Endeavour, since Oct. 30, 2012. The 11-year exhibition, which […]