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Retired in May 2011, Space Shuttle Endeavour was ferried to Los Angeles on 21 September 2012, moved through city streets from the airport to Exposition Park on 12-14 October 2012, and put on display on 30 October 2012. After having seen the moves a few weeks earlier, I am visiting Endeavour again, on the second full day of the exhibit, Halloween.

Endeavour will be kept in this temporary exhibit space, Samuel Oschin Pavilion, until 2017, when the permanent Samuel Oschin Air & Space Center is planned to open, and Endeavour is to be displayed there in the launch configuration complete with boosters and external fuel tank.

This Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) is removed as a separate exhibit. It remains the most advanced rocket engine ever built. The SSME is fueled by liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, producing water vapor as exhaust. Three SSMEs powered the Space Shuttle; they burned for 8 1/2 minutes, using the fuel from the external fuel tank, to put the Shuttle into orbit. (Solid-fuel boosters actually provided 85% of the thrust for the first two minutes, however.)

The SSME was built by Rocketdyne right here in Southern California - Canoga Park. Rocketdyne moved SSME production to Kennedy Space Center after 1999, but continued to monitor every Shuttle launch from Canoga Park all the way to the end of the Shuttle program. In all, Rocketdyne built 51 SSMEs. Nine of them were always kept flight-ready: three on the active Shuttle, three for a backup Shuttle in case of a rescue mission, and three spares.
Date Taken on 31 October 2012, 13:04
Source Space Shuttle Endeavour at California Science Center
Author InSapphoWeTrust
Camera location34° 00′ 58.34″ N, 118° 17′ 11.05″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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