3:01 a.m. CDT, October 12, 2012
LOS ANGELES, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The retired space shuttle
Endeavour sets off on Friday for a road trip unlike any of its
previous journeys, one that will see it crawl through the
streets of Los Angeles instead of hurtling through the solitary
reaches of space.
Endeavour will nose out of Los Angeles International Airport
well before dawn as it begins a two-day ground journey atop a
massive wheeled transporter to its final resting place at the
California Science Center on the edge of downtown.
"It's a national treasure; this is something that we all
paid for with our taxes," Ken Phillips, aerospace curator at the
science center, said of the hulking craft that flew from 1992 to
2011 and will go on public display later this month.
He described the shuttle, which was largely built in
Southern California, as a workhorse for the American space
program and said it represented "the very best, I think, of what
people can do when they decide to cooperate and do good things."
The science center beat out a number of other institutions
when NASA chose it as the permanent home for the 80-ton winged
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