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A recent Times review of the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center declares that the Endeavour space shuttle \u2014 displayed for the first time ever in launch position \u2014 \u201cis, simply put, one of the greatest artifacts ever installed in a museum.\u201d<\/p>\n
While it may be true that visitors will flock to L.A.\u2019s newest cultural haven just to see the shuttle, the 200,000-square-foot addition to the California Science Center contains plenty of other mind-melting artifacts to gawk at \u2014 especially if you\u2019re an aerospace buff. If you\u2019ve read Tom Wolfe\u2019s riveting 1979 book \u201cThe Right Stuff\u201d (or seen the movie) about the early years of NASA\u2019s space program, you\u2019ll likely feel downright starstruck when confronted with iconic pieces of history ripped straight from its pages.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s much more than history at this tech-forward new museum. This list of must-see artifacts reminds us of all we know about air and space, and all we don\u2019t \u2014 as well as the many novel and ingenious ways we continue to work toward fresh discoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text”> A recent Times review of the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center declares that the Endeavour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22774,6235,151195,9831,2641,48,52,51,196769,47,50,49,7922,3098,196768,196770,116213,41473,124828,1744,103239],"class_list":["post-510576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-astronaut","tag-earth","tag-endeavour","tag-first-time","tag-foot","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-launch-control","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-oschin","tag-oschin-center","tag-samuel-oschin-air","tag-satellite","tag-shuttle","tag-space","tag-space-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510576","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=510576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}