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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. The gift shop has some pricey scale models for sale. This is the priciest, at $550. For that price, I can own the entire NASA Space Shuttle fleet, including Enterprise (which only did in-atmosphere glide tests), Columbia (destroyed in 2003), and Challenger (destroyed in 1986). Enterprise was retired in 1985, and displayed at the Smithsonian until April 2012 when it was moved to Intrepid Air and Sea Museum in New York City. Discovery took Enterprise's place at the Smithsonian. Atlantis remains at Kennedy Space Center, where a display pavilion is being built to display it in an in-flight configuration with open cargo bay. Each orbiter is identified by name and its unique number. OV stands for Orbiter Vehicle, and operational orbiters were numbered from 101 up. Columbia was the first spaceworthy orbiter, and Enterprise was supposed to have been fitted out for spaceflight after Columbia entered service, but because the design changes made modifying Enterprise less cost-effective, the structural test vehicle OV-99 was instead fitted out and turned into Challenger, hence its out-of-order numbering. |
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| Author | InSapphoWeTrust from Los Angeles, California, USA |
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