Endeavour SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR IN ORBIT. component to the International Space Station. A stronauts may have to pilot the spacecraft, conduct scientific experiments, repair equipment. This missions launch was delayed due to changes in the design of the Shuttles main payload, AMS-02, as. The Samuel Oschin Pavilion is now closed, while we finish building Endeavours permanent homea new addition to the Science Center called the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.However, you can still visit our companion exhibitEndeavour Together: Parts & Peoplefeaturing artifacts from Endeavour and the external tank. The STS-134 mission marks the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Discovery will be the first of NASAs three remaining operational Space Shuttles to be retired as the space program winds down. Astronauts also took the Endeavour to add the first U.S. 13-day space station construction mission. The Endeavour first blasted into orbit in 1992, completed 25 missions and helped crews prepare the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s a dream come true, for sure, said Lynda Oschin, wife of the late Los Angeles businessman. "We don't want to damage the space shuttle." The space shuttle Endeavour passes the Hollywood sign before landing at LAX on Sept. "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. Article Space shuttle Endeavour has spent 19 years pushing boundaries, and its final mission will allow that legacy to live on. 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. The space shuttle Endeavour lands for the last time at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 1, 2011. Cranes lifted Endeavour off a Los Angeles side street and onto an external tank with solid rocket boosters for display. 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. A space shuttle is standing upright for the first time in more than a decade.