California Science Center Starts Complex Process to Display Space Shuttle Endeavour Vertically

Technicians remove lifting lugs after placing the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Solid Rocket Aft Skirts on top of a seismic isolator pad in the Shuttle Gallery of at the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles on July 20, 2023. Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo

LOS ANGELES—A highly technical process began Thursday in Los Angeles to put NASA’s retired Space Shuttle Endeavour on permanent display in the vertical launch position complete with external tank and two solid rocket boosters.

Workers used a crane to hoist the bottom segments of the boosters into the California Science Center’s future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, which is currently under construction in Exposition Park.