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“This is a huge morning for us now,” said Jeffrey N. Rudolph, president and CEO of the science centre.
“The scale of it is something that really amazes people. Everyone who sees it, even those who’ve seen the shuttle before, they say wow.”
Endeavour embarked on its first mission STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011. It flew 25 missions between 1992 and 2011, when NASA’s shuttle program ended. The shuttle is named after the British HMS Endeavour, the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery in 1768.
