at Figueroa Street and Martin Luther King Jr. The rocket motors are expected to pause at 8 a.m. At 7:30 a.m., the rocket motors are expected to head north on Figueroa Street, starting at West 43rd Place, and continue on for about two miles before arriving at the California Science Center. The rocket motors will then take a left on Slauson Avenue, going underneath the 110 Freeway, before making a right on Figueroa Street. They’ll then turn north on the 110 Freeway, and about 5 a.m., exit at Gage Avenue, heading east before heading north on Broadway. After arriving in Norwalk, the rockets will head west on the 105. The rocket motors will head south on the 605 Freeway. Then Wednesday at 3 a.m., the journey will resume. The rocket motors will remain in place at a location beside the freeway for about 15 hours they will not be blocking traffic and the exact location wasn’t disclosed. Once in Rancho Cucamonga, the rocket motors will head west on the 210 Freeway and head toward Irwindale, where they’ll head south on the 605 Freeway and arrive at some location around noon Tuesday. 395, then south on Interstate 15 through the Cajon Pass. Then the rocket motors will head south on U.S. That means the journey of this equipment will occur far more easily and faster than the transport of the Endeavour orbiter in 2012 and the orange external tank in 2016. The solid rocket motors are wide enough that they’ll take more than one lane of traffic.īut the diameter of the rocket motors is small enough that, when carried on a low truck bed, they’ll be able to fit underneath freeway underpasses along the designated route. “This is really the last big part of the ‘lift-to-vertical’ that the public can come out and see and participate in.” This week’s move, he said, is the “last chance to see a big part of the shuttle moving through the city.” So that’s why they’re pretty big to move down the streets. “And they’re about the diameter of a 757 fuselage, and pretty close to the same length. “They’re big rockets,” said Jeffrey Rudolph, president of the California Science Center. Each solid rocket motor weighs 104,000 pounds, and each will be transported on its own truck. (Ron McPherson / California Science Center Foundation)ĭonated by Northrup Grumman, each solid rocket motor is large - 12 feet, 2 inches in diameter, and 116 feet in length. The rocket motors will traverse about 160 miles from their current home at the Mojave Air and Space Port to the California Science Center. The solid rocket boosters produced more than 80% of the lift during takeoff. The move involves twin solid rocket motors, which form most of the white solid rocket boosters. The journey of the space shuttle equipment this week will take three hours Tuesday morning and six hours Wednesday morning. Endeavour will be moved from its temporary hangar and hoisted from a horizontal to a vertical position no earlier than the last week of January. When the final exhibit is fully built, Endeavour will be the only space shuttle that will be exhibited as if it is being launched. The new museum wing has been anticipated since 2011 when NASA chose the science center as one of just three museums nationwide to permanently feature the trio of surviving shuttles that have seen spaceflight. This will be the final large piece of equipment needed as the California Science Center constructs the $400-million Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, the final museum home of the space shuttle Endeavour, which is being assembled as if it’s being prepared for launch. Get ready for the last big transport of space shuttle equipment to the California Science Center, a two-day spectacle that will traverse seven freeways from the Mojave Desert to South Los Angeles, to be eventually installed at a grand 20-story museum exhibit.
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