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As CA space shuttle display goes vertical, here is how Endeavour is being protected from earthquakes [i]Even before it opened more than a decade ago, the exhibit of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour in Los Angeles has elicited one question perhaps more than any other — can it survive an earthquake? And to think, that was while the winged orbiter was displayed near the ground in its horizontal, landing configuration. Now, as the California Science Center takes the first steps to stack the vehicle with a pair of twin solid rocket boosters and an external fuel tank for a vertical, launchpad-like permanent exhibit inside the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, the question has only increased in magnitude.[/i]
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