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/PRNewswire/ -- This week, two 116-foot long Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs), each weighing over 100,000 lbs., were securely lifted by crane and stacked in their...

The future museum display of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour took a giant step upward as cranes lifted the first of two solid rocket motors into the vertical at the California Science Center.

Gayle Anderson reports on the California Science Center’s special “Go for Stack” process, the complex process of moving and lifting each of the space shuttle components into place for Endeavour’s upcoming, 20-story vertical display in the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, currently under construction, continues on Nov. 7 with the installation of two […]

Endeavour's giant rockets will be hoisted by crane next week to sit atop the craft's aft skirts in the first step of assembling a full-stack configuration of the shuttle at the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

/PRNewswire/ -- The California Science Centers Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center project has received another major boost with a $25 million gift from...

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.

The 116-foot-long boosters weighing more than 100,000 pounds each will be a part of the space shuttle Endeavor's new display.

The two solid rocket motors, each weighing 104,000 pounds and the size of a Boeing 757 fuselage, were trucked from the Mojave Air and Space Port over two days.

NASA’s goal to reduce the costs of the powerful Space Launch System rocket for its Artemis program by 50% was called “highly unrealistic” and a threat to its deep space exploration plans, according to a report by NASA’s Office of the Inspector General released on Thursday. The audit says the costs to produce one SLS rocket through its proposed fixed-cost contract will still top $2.5 billion, ...

Twin rocket boosters of the retired Space Shuttle have made the trek to Los Angeles, where they will be stacked in a launch-ready, vertical position for the first time in over a decade.