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On This Day in Space: April 28, 2001: World's 1st space tourist launches to space station
By Hanneke Weitering last updated
On April 28, 2001, the world's first space tourist hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Endeavour lifted onto space shuttle stack for California Science Center exhibit (video)
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
A space shuttle is standing upright for the first time in more than a decade. Cranes lifted Endeavour off a Los Angeles side street and onto an external tank with solid rocket boosters for display.
Watch a crane lift space shuttle Endeavour into place for museum exhibit early Jan. 30 (video)
By Mike Wall published
A crane will install the space shuttle Endeavour at its California Science Center home early Tuesday morning (Jan. 30), and you can watch the action live.
Last built-for-flight external tank lifted into place for space shuttle Endeavour exhibit
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
NASA's last-existing, built-for-flight space shuttle external tank took to the sky, briefly leaving the ground to become part of the California Science Center's space shuttle Endeavour exhibit.
Solid rocket boosters for shuttle Endeavour exhibit capped with nose cones
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The work to stand up two rockets for the launchpad-like exhibit of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour has been capped, literally and figuratively, with the addition of two nose cones.
Mary Cleave, space shuttle astronaut who led NASA's science division, dies at 76
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
Mary Cleave, who launched twice on the space shuttle before becoming the first woman to head NASA's science division, has died. Cleave was the 10th woman to fly in space and spent 11 days in orbit.
2nd rocket booster lifted into place for space shuttle Endeavour LA exhibit
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
For the second time, the largest part of a space shuttle-era rocket booster has been taken vertical as part of the display of the orbiter Endeavour at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Rocket booster parts arrive in LA to stand up space shuttle Endeavour exhibit
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
They may not be as iconic as Endeavour or as large as the orbiter's external tank, but the sight of twin rockets moving through the streets of Los Angeles was enough to once again draw a crowd.
Public invited to watch solid rocket motors arrive for shuttle Endeavour exhibit in L.A.
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The California Science Center is celebrating the anniversary of space shuttle Endeavour's L.A. trip with the delivery of two very large candles. Solid rocket motors are set to stand with Endeavour.
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