{"id":271359,"date":"2026-04-16T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271359\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:44:08","slug":"construction-of-space-shuttle-endeavours-new-home-at-the-california-science-center-is-complete-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271359\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of Space Shuttle Endeavour\u2019s new home at the California Science Center is complete \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at California Science Center has been completed after four years, offering the public new exhibit spaces and the permanent home for Space Shuttle Endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>It will take several months before the center announces an opening date. Still to complete are the exhibits of historic artifacts and interactive exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the center said, \u201cThrough an impressive collection of 100 aerospace artifacts integrated with 100 new hands-on exhibits, the Air and Space Center will showcase authentic aircraft and spacecraft to encourage active learning through discovery; and will be the only place in the world to see an authentic space shuttle system exhibited as if \u2018ready-for-launch\u2019 in a towering vertical display.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Final preparations are underway to move and lift space shuttle...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LDN-L-SPACE-CENTER-0419-DM-3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Final preparations are underway to move and lift space shuttle Endeavour in the culmination of Go for Stack\u2014the complex, six-month, multi-phase process of stacking each of the space shuttle components in a 20-story, ready-to-launch, vertical configuration.  Endeavour can be seen in the back, right between the California Science Center and the Exposition Rose Garden on Thursday, Ja. 25, 2024.  (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The permanent home of Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LDN-L-SPACE-CENTER-0419-DM-5.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LDN-L-SPACE-CENTER-0419-DM-5.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The permanent home of Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April-14, 2026.  The California Science Center announced that construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is complete. With building construction finished, the installation of historic artifacts and interactive exhibits<br \/>\nis well underway.  (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The permanent home of Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LDN-L-SPACE-CENTER-0419-DM-2.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LDN-L-SPACE-CENTER-0419-DM-2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The permanent home of Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April-14, 2026.  The California Science Center announced that construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is complete. With building construction finished, the installation of historic artifacts and interactive exhibits<br \/>\nis well underway.  (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The permanent home of Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LDN-L-SPACE-CENTER-0419-DM-7.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LDN-L-SPACE-CENTER-0419-DM-7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The permanent home of Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April-14, 2026.  The California Science Center announced that construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is complete. With building construction finished, the installation of historic artifacts and interactive exhibits<br \/>\nis well underway.  (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 4<\/p>\n<p>Final preparations are underway to move and lift space shuttle Endeavour in the culmination of Go for Stack\u2014the complex, six-month, multi-phase process of stacking each of the space shuttle components in a 20-story, ready-to-launch, vertical configuration.  Endeavour can be seen in the back, right between the California Science Center and the Exposition Rose Garden on Thursday, Ja. 25, 2024.  (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JeVrey Rudolph, president and CEO of the center, said, \u201cThrough the development of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, the California Science Center is fulfilling a decades-long dream. This amazing project significantly expands our ability to accomplish our mission, to stimulate curiosity and inspire science learning in everyone, on a scale and with an impact unlike anything in our history. The Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will stand as an enduring source of inspiration for generations of scientists, engineers, and explorers \u2013 and we cannot wait to share it with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at California Science Center has been completed after four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,6607,100,2944,645,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-271359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-museum","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-photos-and-videos","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}