Named for a British Royal Navy vessel, the Endeavour traveled more than 122 million miles from 1992 to 2011 on 25 missions (sometimes to make repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope).
In 2012 when the Endeavour landed in Los Angeles after its final flight, this Toyota Tundra towed it to its new home at the California Science Center. The Tundra is now part of an exhibit that illustrates the principles of leverage. (You can lift the truck!)
Next to the Science Center, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Los Angeles hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984.
The entrance to the Science Center.
The Endeavour!
Moving the Endeavour from LAX to the Science Center.
“Powered by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen from the large, orange external tank, the three space shuttle main engines propelled the shuttle with over one and a half million pounds of thrust.”
The gift shop.
Wandering through the aquarium while waiting for our Hubble 3D IMAX showing to start. (The film and the Hubble photos were phenomenal.)
