Since the tragic explosion of the space shuttle Challenger 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, resulting in the loss of all seven souls aboard, NASA had maintaining an exemplary safety record with no major accidents or deaths for over 17 years. That all changed on Feb. 1, 2003 when the space shuttle Columbia […]
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Richard “Dick” Truly, who was one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later led NASA as its eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86. Truly’s death on Tuesday (Feb. 27) was confirmed by the Association of Space Explorers, a professional organization for the world’s astronauts and cosmonauts, which […]
The first sign was the countdown clock. On Feb 1 2003, nine-year-old Kaycee Anderson was in the crowded bleachers by Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre, watching the seconds tick down towards zero – then start climbing back up again. The perfectly blue sky seemed to highlight the absence of the Columbia space shuttle, due to return […]
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 […]
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 […]
Just days after it was taken off exhibit and as its external tank is scheduled for its brief return to flight, NASA’s retired space shuttle Endeavour is heading under wraps. With the new year getting underway, the California Science Center in Los Angeles is expecting to complete its unprecedented “Go for Stack” campaign, ultimately taking […]
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 […]