California Science Center
Hands-on museum campus with air and space exhibits, an IMAX theater, and a vertically displayed retired space shuttle.
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This guide to the California Science Center in Los Angeles follows Space Shuttle Endeavour's four-day, twelve-mile crawl through city streets in October 2012, when crews rerouted power lines, lowered traffic signals and felled hundreds of trees to clear its wingspan. It lingers on a freeway bridge too weak for the shuttle's usual transporter, and the improvised solution engineers and a driver worked out to get nearly three hundred thousand pounds across it. Astronaut Garrett Reisman rode along for that stretch, and the city later replanted roughly a thousand trees.
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