![]() The future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is a 200,000-square-foot expansion that will double the Science Center’s educational exhibition space, adding a collection of 100 authentic artifacts integrated with 100 new hands-on exhibits. The final shuttle mission was flown in 2011, bringing the shuttle era to an end after 135 missions spanning 30 years. Each of the two ill-fated shuttles had a crew of seven, all of whom were killed. ![]() The shuttle Challenger was destroyed in an explosion shortly after launch in 1986 and the shuttle Columbia broke apart on re-entry in 2003. The shuttle Enterprise, which didn’t go to space but was used for landing tests before the first shuttle launch in 1981, is on display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. The shuttles Atlantis and Discovery are on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia, respectively. Of the remaining shuttles, Endeavour will be the only one displayed in the vertical launch position. Preliminary work to attach the orbiter to the stack continued in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Tuesday it had been placed alongside the boosters and fuel tank. The 122-foot-long shuttle was lifted by a 450-foot crane at about 10 p.m. The shuttle, having been on display since 2012 in a horizontal position at Exposition Park’s South Lawn between the Natural History Museum and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, was moved to the new location and lifted by crane into its vertical “launch” position astride the boosters and fuel tank at the construction site of the new Samuel Oschin Air Space Center. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron BenderĪs part of a project the Science Center dubs, “Go for Stack,” the orbiter - one of three remaining from the space shuttle era in which five operational shuttles were built - is being mated with a pair of solid rocket boosters and an external fuel tank to create a display that will show the shuttle and its “stack” as they would have appeared on the launch pad for any of Endeavour’s 25 missions into orbit.
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