Seeing the real thing is not so common anymore. "In today's world, you can see anything virtually.
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"A lot of people at NASA see the value in having one place in the world where there could be the full space shuttle showing the full system in one place." of the massive space shuttle, but Los Angeles Police Department officials say. In a milestone, the Los Angeles home of the retired space shuttle Endeavour broke ground Wednesday on a permanent museum. The shuttle has moved at a top speed of 2 mph, and at some points along the 12-mile. The Endeavour completed 25 missions into space, including the first service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, cementing its place in American history.
Los Angeles welcomes the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which touched down at Los Angeles International Airport on September 21. The voyage has been more logistically challenging than anticipated, with several delays along the route pushing the arrival back nearly a day. Photo courtesy of Joshua Gunther, Flickr. The museum hopes to have all the components - shuttle, tank and booster - together for the dramatic vertical display by 2018, says California Science Center President Jeffrey N. The 2012 Toyota Tundra CrewMax 1/2-ton pickup is slated to tow Endeavour. The space shuttle Endeavour is traveling from Los Angeles International Airport to Exposition Park - a trip originally scheduled to take place Friday and Saturday. When the tank arrives in Los Angeles by barge, from New Orleans through the Panama Canal to Marina del Rey, it will be moved to the science center along city streets, following the route Endeavour took in 2012, a journey witnessed by huge crowds that gathered to watch the shuttle make its way slowly and carefully to the museum in downtown LA. "NASA thought it was a better use of the resource and gave it to us." NASA initially planned to put the tank on display at the factory where it was built, but the museum "made a better plea," he says. "So this one tank sat there, waiting for a mission, and we never flew another mission that was appropriate for it." Space Shuttle Endeavour is in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California Science Center (700 Exposition Park Dr.), which is on the grounds of Exposition. Jenkins, the project director overseeing the museum's shuttle display and a former contract engineer on the shuttle program. "We never flew another low-earth science mission," says Dennis R.
That $75 million lightweight tank was intended for low-earth orbit shuttle missions, but in 2003 NASA reprioritized its mission program to complete the space station before retiring the shuttle fleet. That's when NASA stepped in with its offer of the only remaining tank, a lightweight version different from the ones that sent shuttles on their way to the International Space Station. Space Shuttle Endeavour 197,761,262 kilometres (122,883,151 mi) around Earth 4,671 around Earth Retired California Science Center Los Angeles, California. That had officials at the science center thinking they'd have to settle for creating a replica.
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