![]() There are a few experiences like that around the world where you see something of that scale, that’s real, and that’s been so significant to our exploration of the universe.” “And that, I think, will inspire so many people. And it’s almost overwhelming how huge it is,” Rudolph said. “That’s the view we’re gonna give people - like, they’re right at the base of the launchpad looking up at this shuttle stack. Roughly halfway through the building’s construction, the shuttle will be moved into the structure, and the rest of the building will then be finished.Īstronauts have cheered the Science Center for designing the exhibit so that people will be able to see the last space shuttle ever built in a way relatively few have seen it before. Building construction of the California Science Center’s Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will probably take three years, but it will take longer for the interior to be completed. Once complete, the exhibit will be what’s believed to be the tallest vertical authentic spacecraft display in the world. Of the three surviving space shuttles, Endeavour will be the only one displayed with its nose pointing to the stars, and will be fully attached to the last remaining authentic orange external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters. Aside from that general timeline, though, there’s no opening date yet for the expansion.In a milestone, the Los Angeles home of the retired space shuttle Endeavour broke ground Wednesday on a permanent museum, which ultimately envisions the spacecraft displayed as if ready for launch. ![]() A year and a half in, Endeavour will be taken off display and moved into the new Air and Space Center, which will then continue to be built around the orbiter. With construction now technically underway, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is expected to take three years to construct. Samuel Oschin Family Foundation between that and other donations, it’s currently raised $280 million of its $400 million goal. Its forthcoming home comes thanks to the museum’s largest-ever gift from the Mr. One of only three remaining space shuttle orbiters that’ve been to space and back (and the only one on display on the West Coast), Endeavour first left Earth’s surface in 1992 and, after 25 flights, was retired in 2011. The new 20-story building, which will occupy an area in Exposition Park between the existing museum and the California African American Museum, will double the Science Center’s display space, with 150 exhibits (including additional aircraft and spacecraft) across three level of galleries dedicated to flight and the exploration of the universe. ![]() Rendering: Courtesy ZGF/California Science Center Rendering: Courtesy ZGF/California Science Center Rendering: Courtesy ZGF/California Science Center Renderings of the space show guests able to gawk at the ship from various vertical levels: from below the engines all the way up to above the nose on a glass-bottomed platform, with two stops in between. On Wednesday, the California Science Center broke ground on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, a 200,000-square-foot add-on to the museum that’ll display Endeavour, an orange external fuel tank and a pair of rocket boosters in a vertical, ready-to-launch position. Now, that new home is finally on the horizon. in 2012, Endeavour has been housed horizontally in a tightly-fitted temporary structure at the museum, with a small model that’s teased its eventual permanent digs for about the past decade. It was built in Palmdale, flew about 123 million miles around the Earth and then eventually returned home for its retirement, where it was jubilantly paraded across city streets and into its final resting place at the California Science Center. Who’s had the toughest commute in all of L.A.? Sorry 405 stalwarts, but it’s the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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