Out of this world HVAC design protects space shuttle from earthly elements
The space shuttle Endeavour is a survivor.
The newly retired spacecraft successfully navigated 123 million miles of outer space elements during 25 missions and even survived a tricky piggyback flight from Northern California atop a modified 747 aircraft to Los Angeles’ LAX airport. Its 2-mph ground transport victory lap last October through south Los Angeles’ streets to its new museum home at the California Science Center’s Samuel Oschin Pavilion required dozens of precarious zigzags around tight corners, trees, telephone poles, and other obstacles.