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History of endeavour space shuttle2/20/2024 The boosters are the first to be stood up on the West Coast in 38 years. "The lifts were a success partially because of Northrop Grumman's help, too, because they did put together these boosters for us in advance," said Rudolph. They were built up from parts used in 32 static ground tests and flown on 81 shuttle missions, including 16 of Endeavour's 25 launches. The two solid rocket motors were donated for the exhibit by Northrop Grumman, NASA's SRB contractor. NASA's space shuttle program in pictures: A tribute Rocket booster parts arrive in LA to stand up space shuttle Endeavour exhibit Space shuttle Endeavour arrives at its new LA museum home Guests will also be able to see inside Endeavour's cargo hold, with one of the orbiter's payload bay doors open to afford views of a flown Spacehab commercial module, a replica docking adapter and external airlock and, on the bay's sill, mockups of the shuttle's Canadarm robotic arm and orbiter boom sensor system (OBSS) boom. "People will think they can reach out and touch it. "What I really enjoyed was being able to go up on some of the upper levels where the public will be and get an even a better feeling for how close people will feel to the whole stack," said Rudolph. Visitors will be able to view the 20-story-tall spacecraft from its base or ascend on an elevator to the crew hatch level or even above the nose of the external tank. When the air and space center opens to the public in the next several years, it will debut with the world's only vertical display of an authentic space shuttle stack. (Image credit: California Science Center) A member of the California Science Center's "Go for Stack" team uses a mallet to secure one of the 177 pins holding a solid rocket motor to its aft skirt after being stacked.
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