To get ready for Endeavour's grand move, crews will begin installation of the base of the shuttle's full stack on July 20 at the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.
The most dramatic part of installation will come as early as January when the 66,000-pound, 154-foot long— the last of its kind in existence — will be rolled out and hoisted by cranes into a vertical position.
Once at the building site, Endeavour will be attached to a sling — a large metal frame that will support it as it’s hoisted from a horizontal to a vertical position. From there, two cranes will be on hand: an 11-story, 400-ton hydraulic crane next to Endeavour’s tail and a 40-story crawler crane, probably weighing 900 to 1,000 tons, next to the orbiter’s nose.
But before any of this can happen, the museum needs to ready the area in which Endeavour will be positioned. That process begins in earnest July 20 — Space Exploration Day, in honor of the anniversary of when U.S. astronauts firstIt’ll take roughly two hours that day to hoist the bases of the solid rocket boosters — called the aft skirts — and place them in the lowest section of the new building.
Endeavour: Final Journey The space shuttle Endeavour makes its final journey to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, marking the end of NASA’s shuttle program.
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