After more than twenty organizations submitted proposals for the display of an orbiter, on April 12, 2011, NASA announced that the Space Shuttle Endeavour would go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The Space Shuttle was mounted on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and departed from the Kennedy Space Center on September 19, 2012, heading to the Los Angeles International Airport, with some refueling stops in Ellington Field and Edwards Air Force Base. After low level flyovers above NASA and civic landmarks across the country and in California, it was delivered to LAX on September 21. It was then hoisted off the aircraft and placed inside a United Airlines hangar to prepare for its transportation through the streets of Los Angeles.
After more than twenty organizations submitted proposals for the display of an orbiter on April 12 2011 NASA announced that the Space Shuttle Endeavour would go to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The Space Shuttle was mounted on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and departed from the Kennedy Space Center on S,eptember 19, 2012, heading to the Los Angeles International ,Airport, with some refueling stops in Ellington Field and Edwards Air Force Base After low level flyovers above NASA and civic landmarks across the country and in California it was delivered to LAX on September 21. It was then hoisted off the aircraft and placed inside a United Airlines hangar to prepare for its transportation through the streets of Los Angeles.