Tag: California Science Center
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Twin solid rockets, reused veterans of spaceflight, set for Endeavour display
File photo of two shuttle solid rocket boosters. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — Two space shuttle solid rocket boosters — reusable space hardware that launched on 81 missions — are being gifted to the California Science Center to become part of the museum’s launch pad display of Endeavour. Made by Orbital ATK, the twin boosters…
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Parade moves last shuttle fuel tank to museum for Endeavour display
The external tank crosses the 405 Freeway. Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News A spectacle never seen before — a space shuttle external fuel tank traversing city streets — was witnessed in Los Angeles today as the relic was moved to the museum that will construct a rocket science attraction. See a full gallery of…
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Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank moves through Los Angeles to museum
A last-of-its-kind piece of space hardware — the only remaining shuttle external fuel tank — is making its way along the city streets of Los Angeles today. External Tank No. 94 is headed from Marina del Rey on the Pacific Coast, where it arrived by barge on Wednesday, to the California Science Center at Exposition…
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Shuttle fuel tank comes ashore in California for Endeavour museum exhibit
Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News A five-week, 5,000-mile sea trek of the last space shuttle external fuel tank pulled into port today for a parade through the urban jungle of Southern California on Saturday to its final destination. Originally built for a shuttle mission but never flown, the last-of-its-kind tank was donated to the…
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Photos: Shuttle tank arrives in California
The museum-bound space shuttle tank is coming ashore this morning in Marina del Rey, California, for offloading from its transport barge. The tank has spent the past five weeks at sea, traveling from its manufacturing facility in New Orleans. A 16-mile parade along Los Angeles city streets to the California Science Center will be Saturday.…
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Journey of shuttle fuel tank to California saves four people in Pacific
File photo from the trip by Dennis R. Jenkins Making a brief pit shop in San Diego to clear customs today, the museum-bound space shuttle external fuel tank will reach Los Angeles for offloading from the transport barge on Wednesday, just days after a serendipitous rescue of the passengers from a sunken boat in the…
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Photos: Space shuttle fuel tank in Panama for passage through canal
The last space shuttle external tank in existence, headed from the New Orleans manufacturing plant to the California Science Center for the vertical launch pad display of the retired orbiter Endeavour, has passed through the Panama Canal. The Shannon Dann tugboat pulling the Gulfmaster I barge loaded with External Tank No. 94 arrived at the…
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Museum-bound shuttle external tank completes transit of Panama Canal
The tank passed the Pedro Miguel Locks on Tuesday. Photo by Panama Canal @thepanamacanal Navigating the 48-mile Panama Canal that slices through the isthmus, the final shipment of a space shuttle external fuel tank emerged into the Pacific this afternoon for a three-week trek to California. The Shannon Dann tugboat pulling the Gulfmaster I barge…
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Last space shuttle tank reaches Panama Canal for crossing to Pacific
The tank left Louisiana factory on April 12. Credit: California Science Center CAPE CANAVERAL — The tugboat and barge transporting the last space shuttle external tank to its display venue in California have reached the inlet to the Panama Canal, now just days away from sailing into the Pacific. It is the fifth shuttle fuel…
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Final space shuttle fuel tank in existence heads to California museum
ET-94 departs Michoud this afternoon. Credit: California Science Center On the 35th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch, the last remaining external fuel tank set sail today from its factory in New Orleans to Los Angeles and a remarkable museum attraction in the making. Known as External Tank No. 94, the relic of a…