The California Science Center Foundation is actively fundraising to complete the 200,000-square-foot structure, having raised $360 million of its $400 million goal. Endeavour will be the only retired space shuttle to be displayed in liftoff position, highlighting the exhibitions in the new building when it opens to the public. The groundbreaking for the 20-story Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center occurred in the spring of 2022, and the building is expected to be completed in mid-2025.
The Space Shuttle came to California in 2012, mounted atop a Boeing 747 that landed at LAX before completing a 12-mile journey across the streets of Los Angeles to the California Science Center, where an estimated 18 million people have already visited the orbiter in a temporary display. He reports that the maneuver had to be executed when there was almost no wind, and at night “because once the sun comes up, you get the pressure difference in the atmosphere.” Participants in the project were joined by press and local residents who came out to watch, either from the ground or nearby rooftops. With the Endeavour orbiter the last space shuttle ever built crews will need to maneuver an object with a 78-foot wingspan and get. will be home to the only retired space shuttle displayed in a full-stack arrangement as if ready for launch. The team had also considered an approach that would involve backing the orbiter into the facility and then lifting it to the vertical position, but the option that they chose was considered safer while giving them more control, explains Kenneth Phillips, the California Science Center’s curator of aerospace science. Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, nicknamed Odysseus, is expected to touch down on the lunar surface at 4:24 p.m. Once complete and the rest of the museum is constructed in the coming years L.A.
California Science Center Breaks Ground on Future Home of Space Shuttle EndeavourĮndeavour’s move was carefully planned with help from NASA engineers.