Shuttling Space Artifacts: Rocket Booster Parts Bound for Endeavour Exhibit

The pieces are coming together for the towering, launch-pad-like display of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour. Three large parts from two solid rocket boosters are now on a cross country road trip in preparation for the planned 2019 exhibit at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The components, two 7.5-foot-tall (2.3 meter) aft skirts that each sat at the base of a booster, and a 10-foot-tall (3 m) frustum that sat below the nose cap at the top, were loaded onto trucks at NAS