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Second rocket booster lifted into place for space shuttle Endeavour L.A. exhibit [i]For the second time in two days, the largest part of a space shuttle-era rocket booster has been taken vertical at the California Science Center as part of the future launchpad-like display of NASA's retired orbiter Endeavour. On Wednesday (Nov. 8), the mated segments for the exhibit's starboard (or right side) solid rocket booster (SRB) were hoisted into place atop an aft skirt inside the work site for the science center's Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles. Two large cranes were used to rotate and then raise the 116-foot-long (35-meter), 104,000 pound (47,000 kilogram) solid rocket motor (SRM), such that it now stands opposite its twin, which was stacked on Tuesday.[/i]
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