![]() ![]() And the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral has Atlantis, which the center will move to an on-site visitors complex next month. New York City has the prototype shuttle Enterprise at its Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. The Smithsonian in Washington has Discovery at its Steven F. The other remaining shuttles also have found homes. In 2017, a 200-foot-tall (61-meter) structure will open in which Endeavour will stand vertically, said Ken Phillips, aerospace curator at the California Science Center. The shuttle will be displayed in a temporary hangar-style metal structure to protect it from the elements. 21 after a ceremonial piggyback flight around California. It had been parked at the airport in Los Angeles since arriving on Sept. It was very dark last night, there were times that we were literally inches of clearance, at times the thickness of a credit card.”Įndeavour has hop-scotched across the country from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the back of a modified Boeing 747. “As we always said, safety and security are our main concern. “This did cut into our costs,” Harris said. The delays and extra work added to the price tag of Endeavor’s last journey, said William Harris, a senior vice president at the Science Center. Charitable foundations and corporations have donated money and services for the move. The budget to move Endeavour was over $10 million, said Shell Amega, a science center spokeswoman. Some street lights, traffic signals, power poles and parking meters were temporarily removed. The science center will plant more than 1,000 trees to make up for their loss. Organizers say only a few inches separated Endeavour’s wings from structures along the route, and workers felled 400 trees along curbs to clear a path. Its combined weight with the transporter was 80 tons. The shuttle is 122 feet (37 meters) long and 78 feet (24 meters) wide and stands 5 stories tall at the tail, which police said makes it the largest object ever to move through Los Angeles. Navigating the massive spacecraft through Los Angeles’ busy streets required precise calculations, skilled maneuvering, and unwavering dedication. Endeavour was taken out of service at the end of the shuttle program. RT HistoryInPics: Moving the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center was a remarkable feat of engineering and organization. The trip was delayed in part due to maintenance needed for the massive, wheeled transporter that carried Endeavor and to trim some trees along the route, organizers said.Įndeavour flew from 1992 to 2011 and was built to replace the Challenger, which exploded seconds into a 1986 launch in a mishap that killed all seven crew members on board. Endeavour was largely built in southern California and was a workhorse of the U.S. The shuttle, which prompted cheers and expressions of awe from spectators as it inched through the city’s streets, will become a tourist attraction at the center. ![]()
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