The tank and the orbiter will be added in January. The motors are 116 feet tall and weigh more than 100,000 pounds each. "They provide 80% of the power to get that thing from the Earth into Earth orbit, and so if those two things weren't there, they would never move anywhere," said Kenneth Phillips, the curator for aerospace science at the California Science Center. On Thursday, the solid rocket motors were placed in their "ready for launch" position at the new building. NASA space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida, being readied for its STS-125 Hubble Space Telescope mission with backup shuttle Endeavour (far in. The spaceship once strolled down the streets of Los Angeles in 2012 after its final mission for NASA. The main event, however, is the Endeavour itself. This includes the Space Hab, a science lab onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour for astronauts to conduct science experiments during their missions. At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, employees hold up a banner to commemorate space shuttle Endeavours STS-134 mission as it is moved from its hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building on. The $400 million project will double the science center's educational exhibit space by adding 100 authentic artifacts. LOS ANGELES (KABC) - Some massive pieces of NASA history were erected Thursday at the California Science Center - two solid rocket motors from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which are now set up for display in the new exhibit at the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. Challengers successor sets sail Endeavour inherited its legacy from NASAs second-to-fly orbiter, which tragically was lost 73 seconds into its 10th launch in January 1986.
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