Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.
Two solid rocket motor and aft skirt assemblies stand in the future site of the California Science Center's Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center as the first components of space shuttle Endeavour's permanent exhibit, on Nov. 8, 2023.For the second time in two days, the largest part of a space shuttle-era rocket booster has been taken vertical at the California Science Center as part of the future launchpad-like display of NASA's retired orbiter Endeavour.
, were key milestones in an operation that the science center has dubbed"Go for Stack." Over the next several months, the solid rocket motors will be capped with their forward assemblies, or nose cones, and then as complete solidon Dec. 31, will be mated to the tank and boosters in the first few months of 2024.
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