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Both have talked about it for days and now play space games all the time. The best part of this trip aside from the once in a lifetime experience is the joy that my kids had seeing it.
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We were able to get some pretty good pictures as it went by and I thought I would share this video so you could see just how fast it was moving when it didn’t have trees and buildings to get by. Space Shuttle Endeavour will be hoisted into the air and delicately placed into upright launch-ready position at the California Science Center’s new 200,000-square-foot Samuel Oschin Air and. We all thought it was going to hit the building but at the last minute they turned it just enough to get it by the tree and the building. This made the wing get scarily close to a building. Then it started backing up… hu? I realized after a few minutes that they were backing it up trying to get the wings of the ship around some trees and next to a building.Īs it started to get closer to the trees they had to angle it to the side. EDT, wrapping up a demanding 16-day mission to the international space station. Until it finally looked close enough to be coming down next to us. Space shuttle Endeavour is lifted into the sky, takes final position as star of new museum wing. Endeavour, the youngest shuttle in NASA’s orbiter fleet, touched down here at Kennedy Space Center at 2:34 a.m. Oh, it moved so here is another picture.Īnd waited. we had to turn around a couple times, almost got in a car accident and Saw a couple people almost get hit in the process, but we made it there and got the kids out of the car for the “long” (according to my 4 year old) trek to the street it would travel down.Īnd waited…. It took us longer then expected because of traffic and there were so many streets blocked off. They had to do the same here and it ended up being over 10 million dollars just to move it those 12 miles. In Houston I heard they had to remove a bunch of trees and light poles to move it to get it on the plane that brought it here. This is no small feat since the wings are HUGE and the streets a lot of time don’t allow for a big space shuttle to get down them. My son was more then excited by that, so when I told him that we would be able to see it up close as it traveled form LAX to the Space Museum, He was REALLY excited.įor those who don’t know, the plan for the shuttle was to keep it completely intact while taking it 2 MPH down the street. Since my husband had the car the day it flew all over Southern California we were only able to see it on the computer as it flew on the plane. I was able to see the endeavor space shuttle as it traveled through the streets of L.A. 31, is your last chance to see the space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center before it’s taken off public display indefinitely, while the museum finishes.
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component to the International Space Station.I had a great experience that will probably never get to happen again. People take photos of Space Shuttle Endeavour at the site of the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on Tuesday, Jan. Astronauts also took the Endeavour to add the first U.S. Space shuttle Endeavour has spent 19 years pushing boundaries, and its final mission will allow that legacy to live on. The Endeavour first blasted into orbit in 1992, completed 25 missions and helped crews prepare the Hubble Space Telescope. "We don't want to damage the space shuttle." The shuttles' mission was the longest flight to the Endeavour Space Shuttle station since construction of the multinational outpost began. "When we actually bring it in to attach to the external tank, all the materials are really fragile," California Science Center President Jeff Rudolph said. The center's chief concern is the wind swinging the space shuttle as it erected into a tight space. Space Shuttle Endeavour is lifted into the site of the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center on Jan. It was hoisted to a vertical position and was inching closer to the tank and boosters. It's been so long I've been waiting 34 years for this moment," said Kenneth Phillips, curator of aerospace science at the California Science Center and one of the brains behind this first-of-its-kind project.Ī 450-foot crane began lifting the Endeavour late Monday to attach it to its full tank and two rocket boosters, which will make it the only shuttle in the world to be displayed like it's ready for liftoff. Endeavour shuttle lifted into final upright display 02:40Įxcitement is in the air as the Space Shuttle Endeavour moves into its permanent home at the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.