Space Shuttle Endeavour solid rocket motor is hoisted into place at California Science Center – Daily News | Space

Julio Sanchez recalls being in high school when the Space Shuttle Endeavour rolled into Los Angeles in 2012. Eleven years later, Sanchez, now a father of two young children, milled about near the California Science Center in South L.A.’s Exposition Park on Tuesday, Nov. 7, hoping to catch a glimpse of a 116-foot solid rocket motor being hoisted upright and lifted into position, to stand as part of what will ultimately be a 20-story vertical display of the Endeavour.

“It’s history in the making, you know. This is something that we’ll be able to tell our kids when we’re older,” said Sanchez, who had just dropped off his 8-year-old daughter at the Alexander Science Center School, next to the California Science Center.

• The 450 ft crane towers above as crews install the first of two recently arrived 116-foot-long Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) are lifted by a large, 450-foot-tall crane from their temporary location outside the California Science Center at Exhibition Park into their final vertical positions. Tuesday, Los Angeles CA/USA. Nov 7, 2023.

• Work crews install the first of two recently arrived 116-foot-long Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) are lifted by a large, 450-foot-tall crane from their temporary location outside the California Science Center at Exhibition Park into their final vertical positions. Tuesday, Los Angeles CA/USA. Nov 7, 2023.

• Work crews install the first of two recently arrived 116-foot-long Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) are lifted by a large, 450-foot-tall crane from their temporary location outside the California Science Center at Exhibition Park into their final vertical positions. Tuesday, Los Angeles CA/USA. Nov 7, 2023.

• Work crews install the first of two recently arrived 116-foot-long Solid Rocket Motors (SRMs) are lifted by a large, 450-foot-tall crane from their temporary location…

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