{"id":175512,"date":"2023-11-06T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/endeavour-assembly-at-science-center-starts-with-lifting-52-ton-rockets-into-place"},"modified":"2023-11-06T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:22:23","slug":"endeavour-assembly-at-science-center-starts-with-lifting-52-ton-rockets-into-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/endeavour-assembly-at-science-center-starts-with-lifting-52-ton-rockets-into-place","title":{"rendered":"Endeavour assembly at Science Center starts with lifting 52-ton rockets into place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/endeavour-assembly-at-science-center-starts-with-lifting-52-ton-rockets-into-place3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The space shuttle Endeavour\u2019s twin giant rockets will be hoisted by crane next week and affixed into place atop the craft\u2019s aft skirts in a first step of assembling a full-stack configuration of the shuttle at the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>The two solid rocket motors\u2014each weighing 104,000 pounds and the size of a Boeing 757 fuselage\u2014were transported by truck in early October from Mojave Air and Space Port to the science center in South Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s actually pretty exciting. This is the first big tall pieces of the stack going into the building,\u201d California Science Center President Jeffrey Rudolph said. Each <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solid+rocket+motor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solid rocket motor<\/a> measures 116 feet and makes up most of the length of the 149-foot solid rocket boosters. At liftoff, the white solid rocket boosters were set underneath Endeavour\u2019s wings and produced more than 80% of the lift during takeoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The space shuttle Endeavour\u2019s twin giant rockets will be hoisted by crane next week and affixed into place atop the craft\u2019s aft skirts in a first step of assembling a full-stack configuration of the shuttle at the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. The two solid rocket motors\u2014each weighing 104,000 pounds and the size [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}