![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You’ll want to see it soon, though: As construction continues, scaffolding will begin to block some viewpoints of the stack in the next two weeks until eventually it’s completely concealed with a roof over its head. The best view of the shuttle is from the plaza or green patch between the Coliseum and BMO Stadium, though you can also get a closer-up but more obscured view near the rose garden to the north. The nose half of the orbiter as well as much of the fuel tank and rockets are visible from just about anywhere in Exposition Park right now. It’ll be another few years before you can step inside the museum and see the retired NASA shuttle up close again, but Angelenos can easily catch a glimpse of it right now-at least the top part of it. Now displayed in a vertical, ready-to-launch position in front of an orange fuel tank and a pair of rocket boosters (the only space shuttle in the world that can claim that distinction), Endeavour’s successful lift marks the completion of the most major milestone in the museum’s sixth-month-long “Go for Stack” process. On Monday night, the California Science Center pitched the 178,000-pound shrink-wrapped orbiter upright and both raised and lowered it via crane into the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. Now, Space Shuttle Endeavour has added one final expedition to its lengthy travel itinerary: a ride on a high-rise–sized crane. It embarked on 25 trips into space, a one-way flight to Los Angeles on top of a 747 and a parade along the city’s surface streets. ![]()
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