Earlier today, I drove down to the California Science Center near downtown Los Angeles to check out the latest construction status on the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center...and needless to say, the permanent home of the orbiter Endeavour is lookin' good!
Endeavour's Space Shuttle Stack is no longer visible from outdoors—as the vehicle is completely covered up by scaffolding and white tarps for temporary protection while the Samuel Oschin Shuttle Gallery's rooftop, known as a diagrid structure, continues to take shape above NASA's youngest retired orbiter. When finished, the diagrid will rise nearly 200 feet into the sky...making it almost as tall as the Coit Tower in San Francisco!
Construction on the Air and Space Center looks to be completed by early next year. After that, scores of aerospace artifacts (such as this Cassini replica that was donated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory 19 miles from the California Science Center) will commence being installed inside the new museum wing.
But of course, it's Endeavour—inside the Samuel Oschin Shuttle Gallery—that I'm most excited to see once this latest addition to the Science Center opens within the next year or so. Happy Birthday to me! Yes, it was today.
Richard T. Par
Richard T. Par
Richard T. Par
Richard T. Par
Richard T. Par
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