NASA / Dimitri Gerondidakis
Photos of the Day... Late last month, construction began on the Endeavour Display Pavilion at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles. The Pavilion will be the temporary hangar where space shuttle Endeavour is placed after she arrives in Southern California this September. The California Science Center is currently raising funds needed to build a new Air and Space Center where Endeavour will go on permanent display once the Center is completed (which would be a few years from now).
In the image above, Endeavour's flight deck is fully lit by all of its high-tech monitors during a media photo op held inside Orbiter Processing Facility-2 (where Endeavour is currently being decommissioned) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida last week. These monitors and the rest of Endeavour's electrical systems will permanently go dark sometime next month...making Endeavour the last of NASA's three retired orbiters to fall silent forever.
All photos below courtesy of Jason1701 - NASASpaceflight.com
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