The last-ever NASA space shuttle to take to the skies has made its final landing. Shuttle Endeavour, atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747 jet, touched down at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) after a three day, cross-country tr
This activity is only a prelude to the spectacle of sound and fury of the Space Shuttle launch to orbit in less than 10 minutes and traveling at orbital velocities of Mach 24. This paper summarizes preliminary results from the Crawler Transporter Sound Attenuation Study, encompassing test and ...
Endeavour will begin a three-day trip from Florida to California on Sept. 17. The shuttle Endeavour will arrive in Los Angeles on Sept. 20 for eventual display at the California Science Center.
Endeavour will be moved the 13 miles from LAX to the CSC on an overland transporter, as seen here with Challenger in 1982. At 122 feet (38 meters) long and a wingspan of 78 feet (24 meters), the shuttle is a much wider load than usual LA traffic. Los Angeles and neighboring Inglewo...
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When the airport authority went to court to have Oehl remove the artifacts from the property, one of the artifacts, a shuttle crew transporter, was left abandoned directly outside of the airport property on land that is used for rally racing. The museum also had a shuttle training simulator ...
12, Endeavour will exit the airport on top of the modified NASA transporter using four self-propelled, computer-controlled vehicles. The 12-mile (19-kilometer) trip will take the shuttle through the streets of Inglewood and Los Angeles, where again thousands of residents and visitors are ...
The shuttle program was formally launched on January 5, 1972, when President Nixon announced that NASA would proceed with the development of a reusable space shuttle system.The stated goals of «transforming the space frontier…into familiar territory, easily accessible for human endeavor»was to...
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The shuttle then was towed to the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building, where it was joined to its tank and boosters. Finally, the completed launch vehicle and its mobile launcher platform rolled out to the launch pad atop a sturdy, slow-moving crawler-transporter. A spectacular liftoff was the re...