NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour has become the world’s first ready-to-launch shuttle display at the California Science Center. This spacecraft successfully flew 25 missions and viewed by around 20 million guests from around the world since arriving at the California Science Center in October of 2012.
Its 122-foot-long orbiter boasts a wingspan of 78 feet and is now fully stacked, complete with two solid rocket boosters, which each consist of an aft skirt at their base, a 116-foot solid rocket motor, as well as a forward assembly on top. However, the largest component of the stack is a 154-foot external tank.
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With the lift and mating of Endeavour, we have successfully completed the last-ever space shuttle stack. This is a dream over thirty years in the making, and a feat that has never before been accomplished outside of a NASA or Air Force facility. The California Science Center has been fortunate to have a remarkable group of experts devoted to this project who have decades of experience working with NASA and the shuttle program—some from the very first space shuttle launch in 1981,” said Jeffrey Rudolph, the President and CEO of the California Science Center.
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