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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.

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.

Space shuttle Discovery under construction at Rockwell International’s Palmdale, California, plant in  August 1982, left, September 1982, and April 1983.

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 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.

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

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