In 2012, the Endeavour captivated people across California as it flew past the Golden Gate Bridge and Hollywood sign atop a Boeing 747, before it underwent a three-day trek on land over the 405 Freeway and across the streets of Los Angeles and Inglewood to its home at the California Science Center. Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered. Features:- Highly detailed - True to 1/400 - Highly collectible - High quality construction Dragons ambitious space models have proven exciting for modelers, as demonstrated by two previous 1/400 scale items the Space Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis mounted on a massive Crawler-Transporter. The new location will give guests views from multiple platforms, including from beneath the orbiter’s three main engines as well as from above, looking through a glass floor directly at its nose.Įndeavour flew 25 missions, with its first mission in 1992 and its last in 2011. Space Shuttle Endeavour was installed in the launch position with the help of two huge cranes at the California Science Center. NASAs space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on Apand continued to set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions. All four elements combined are called a shuttle’s full stack. 'Having the Spacehab module in there will give people a feel for the. Now the third and FINAL in this miniseries is available the Space Shuttle Endeavour with Crawler-Transporter. The famed spacecraft that has been on horizontal display at the science center is in the process of moving to a permanent location in what will be the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, where the vehicle will be mounted in a vertical position, along with the solid rocket boosters and an orange external tank, making it look like it’s ready to launch. In that display, Endeavour will have one of its 60-foot-long (18-meter) payload doors open, showcasing the Spacehab inside. The space shuttle Endeavour began the first part of its journey to its final resting place Thursday, an effort more than a decade in the making after arriving at the California Science Center museum in 2012. The space shuttle Endeavour began the first part of its journey to its final resting place Thursday, an effort more than a decade in the making after arriving at the California Science Center museum in 2012.