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. September, October, mid-January, and February are often less busy times of the year. Weekdays prior to 2:00 PM are typically busier with school groups.
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The other remaining shuttles also have found homes. Our permanent galleries, including space shuttle Endeavour, are FREE and do not require a reservation. 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. It had been parked at the airport in Los Angeles since arriving on September 21 after a ceremonial piggyback flight around California. Space Shuttle Endeavour: California Science Center Official Commemorative Guide EXCLUSIVE. NASA DVD & Space Shuttle Endeavour Commemorative Guide Combo. Charitable foundations and corporations have donated money and services for the move.Įndeavour has hop-scotched across the country from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the back of a modified Boeing 747. Small 10' Plush Endeavour W/Boosters EXCLUSIVE. The project to move Endeavour will cost more than $10 million, said Shell Amega, a science center spokeswoman. Some street lights, traffic signals, power poles and parking meters were temporarily removed.
EDT Monday, May 16, 2011, to lift it and its crew of six off of Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Flo. The science center will plant more than 1,000 trees to make up for their loss. Space program employees, media and several hundred thousand spectators held their breath in rapt attention as the minutes ticked down to launch - then space shuttle Endeavour's main engines ignited for the final time at 8:56 a.m.
Organizers say only a few inches separate Endeavour's wings from structures along the route, and workers have felled 400 trees along curbs to clear a path. Its combined weight with the transporter is 80 tons. The shuttle is 122 feet long and 78 feet wide and stands 5 stories tall at the tail, which police said makes it the largest object ever to move through Los Angeles. Endeavour was taken out of service at the end of the shuttle program. Thousands of spectators also watched earlier on Saturday when the shuttle stopped for a festival-like morning rally outside an arena in the nearby city of Inglewood.Įndeavour flew from 1992 to 2011 and was built to replace the Challenger, which exploded seconds into a 1986 launch that killed all seven crew members on board. An estimated 100,000 spectators lined Martin Luther King Boulevard to watch the final, eastward leg of the journey through working-class south Los Angeles, a spokeswoman for the move's joint information center said.Įarlier in the day, about 65,000 people watched the shuttle head north along Crenshaw Boulevard, said Steve Ruda, a battalion chief for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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