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The Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour atop Over Land Transporter (OLT) after exiting the Los Angeles International Airport (Photo NASA/Bill Ingalls)

About three weeks ago the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles. Thursday evenings there was the start of the operations to transport it to the California Science Center to be exhibited at the Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion. Between the international airport it left from and its destination there are less than 20 km (about 12 miles) but the transport went on for almost three days.

The Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft over Los Angeles (Photo NASA/Jim Ross)

Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles after a long journey atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), the 747 specially modified to carry the Space Shuttles, which can’t fly on their own as a airplane. On October 12, they’ll start the complex operations to trasnport it to the California Science Center, where it will be exposed in the Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion from the end of October.