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During my first visit of the Space Shuttle Endeavour exhibit at California Science Center, I had missed the supplemental exhibit, "Endeavour: the California Story," which deals with the engineering, construction, and support of the Space Shuttle System by California-based workers and companies. So about 40 days later I went back for a make-up photo session.

Among the exhibits is the set of wheels and tires used for Endeavour's final mission, STS-134. Visitors may actually touch the tires. Note the severe scarring on the tread of the two frontmost main landing gear tires!

The landing gear was tested extensively due to a need to withstand severe levels of stress, going from the cold of space to the heat of re-entry, and having to handle the fast and steep landing speeds of the Space Shuttle. During the development of the Shuttle, a Convair CV-990 airliner was fitted with prototype Space Shuttle landing gear and made over 150 fast test landings to simulate Shuttle landings.
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Author InSapphoWeTrust from Los Angeles, California, USA
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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