For the USC and Exposition Park neighborhoods in Los Angeles
The nationwide race to claim one of the rare icons of space exploration is coming Los Angeles - more specifically to South LA.
The California Science Center in Exposition Park will be the final resting place for Endeavour, where it will join spacecrafts Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Endeavour launches for it final mission later this month and will be at the California Science Center museum in 2012. Endeavour will fly to California on the back of NASA's modified Boeing 747.
It's one of a handful of NASA's retired space shuttles looking for a home as dozens of institutions vied for the craft.
"NASA's decision will be a big deal for the local tourist industry, perhaps making the shuttle one of the most popular visitor destinations in California," said Mark Lacter of LAObserved.com.
The Discovery will be displayed at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles International Airport, and the Atlantis remains in Florida, at the spaceport's official visitor complex.
From space.com - "Museums needed to provide an environmentally-controlled indoor exhibit space and be able to afford the estimated $28.8 million needed to prepare the orbiter and transport it for display (Congress waived the fee for the Smithsonian)."
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