Last Tuesday, I drove down to the California Science Center near downtown Los Angeles to check out the progress being made on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center...which will be the final home for the retired space shuttle orbiter Endeavour.
Construction on the new exhibit began over two months ago, with workers still digging trenches and prepping the foundation for the $400 million building.
While the Air and Space Center won't open to the public till 2025, Endeavour herself will be relocated from the Samuel Oschin Pavilion—her current home—to the Air and Space Center's construction site in late 2023.
As you can see in this entry, I took a couple of photos of Endeavour's future home as well as an image of the orbiter still sitting pretty inside her current one at the Science Center. I've also posted pictures of a Space Shuttle Main Engine—which will fly aboard NASA's Space Launch System rocket under a new designation, the RS-25—and the external fuel tank ET-94 at the pavilion.
I plan on returning to the Science Center sometime next year to take more progress photos of this exciting construction project. Happy Sunday!
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