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Endeavour Shuttle's Twin Rocket Boosters Arrive At Exposition Park - Los Angeles, CA - The California Science Center now has all of the pieces they need to place the Endeavour Space Shuttle in a permanent "pre-launch" position.

Each Solid Rocket Motor, donated by Northrup Grumman, is over 12 feet in diameter and 116 feet in length. Each shuttle motor weighs just over 100,000 pounds.

Two iconic Solid Rocket Motors - the kind that once propelled America's famed Space Shuttles into orbit - will be displayed vertically with the shuttle Endeavour at L.A.'s California Science Center.

All of the launch components will be included in the vertical display of Endeavour at its new home in the $400 million Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

Hundreds of people, mostly children, lined both side of the streets outside Exposition Park waiting for the motors to turn into the California Science Center.

Some unusual cargo was hauled through L.A. as a pair of massive rocket motors made the last leg of their journey to the California Science Center.

The public is being invited to view the arrival as the motors are hauled off the Harbor (110) Freeway and driven along Figueroa Street and into the California Science Center on Wednesday morning.

The Solid Rocket Motors from the shuttle Endeavor have been in storage at the Mojave Air and Space Port, about 100 miles north of ...

Starting Tuesday, the rocket motors will travel from the Mojave Air and Space Port in the desert and arrive in Exposition Park on Wednesday.

Eleven years after the meticulous and monumental transportation of Space Shuttle Endeavour along the streets of Los Angeles, another piece of the puzzle will make its way to the California Science Center. Beginning Wednesday morning, two large Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) will be transported along the 110 Freeway, before navigating surface streets as it makes […]