"Go for Payload" at California Science Center

BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: October 9, 2014


Two years after it paraded through the streets of Los Angeles after a cross-country ferry flight from Florida, the space shuttle Endeavour was loaded with a Spacehab logistics module Thursday ahead of the orbiter's planned transition to a vertical display on a mock launch pad in 2018.

The Spacehab pressurized module, known as Flight Unit No. 3, flew on eight space shuttle missions from 1996 to 2000, helping deliver supplies to the Russian space station Mir and the International Space Station.

The installation of the Spacehab module and other items into the shuttle's cargo pay has been dubbed "Go for Payload" by the California Science Center, which hosts Endeavour and plans to expand the shuttle display in the coming years.

The photos below show the lifting operation and remarks by astronaut Barbara Morgan, who flew aboard Endeavour in 2007.

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