Tag: Endeavour
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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…
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Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank relic heads for California
The last remaining external fuel tank built for the space shuttle program but never flew will depart its factory in New Orleans on Tuesday for a long sea voyage to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. These pictures courtesy of the California Science Center show the tank being readied to leave the Michoud Assembly…
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Photos: Water tanks removed from space shuttle for new use
From deep inside the retired space shuttle Endeavour, technicians today extracted the crew module’s water retention tanks that now are destined for launch to the International Space Station. The salvage operation was performed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles — Endeavour’s final resting place. The tanks will be delivered to the station aboard…
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Endeavour reunited with Spacehab payload in museum
The Spacehab module is lifted into Endeavour’s payload bay Thursday. Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Two years after it paraded through the streets of Los Angeles following a cross-country ferry flight from Florida, the space shuttle Endeavour was loaded with a Spacehab logistics module Thursday ahead of the orbiter’s planned transition to a vertical display…
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Endeavour’s ongoing legacy: AMS-02 proving its value
The first exciting results from the AMS-02 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer -02) were released this week, providing what may be the first tangible clues in the ongoing investigation into Dark Matter in the universe. However, the $2 billion experiment only made it into space thanks to the addition of a mission for Shuttle Endeavour, STS-134. STS-134:…
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Remembering Endeavour: A final journey to the California Science Center
The unprecedented effort to haul a space vehicle through the cramped streets of the United States’ third-largest city has been all-but completed as engineers from Los Angeles, NASA, and the California Science Center undertook the monumental task of navigating Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour to her final resting place at the California Science Center. Moving Endeavour…
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Endeavour prepares for road journey to her CSC retirement home
Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour was turned over to the California Science Center by NASA and United Space Alliance (USA) at a hangar at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) at the end of September, signaling that she is ready to roll to her retirement home in the middle of the month. Endeavour Closing In On Final…
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Capture the Flag: Endeavour leaves her mark during Texas stay
During last week’s farewell tour, thousands of people turned out to take one final glimpse of Shuttle Endeavour in the air, before she was permanently grounded in California. Each time the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) landed, the US flag was held aloft from the flight deck – apart from during their stay in Texas, leading…