#DRAGON MODEL SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR SERIES#

The craft will eventually be exhibited at the California Science Center.ĪDULT COLLECTIBLE MODEL - Not intended for children under 14. Instead, Endeavour performed the penultimate mission before the entire Space Shuttle was retired in 2011. It was scheduled to conduct the final Space Shuttle mission, but this task later fell to Atlantis. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.

#DRAGON MODEL SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR SERIES#

The latter half of its series of flights revolved around trips to the ISS. Its 20-year career encompassed 25 forays into space. Endeavour’s first flight occurred in May 1992, and its final journey to the International Space Station (ISS) took place in May 2011. There are two variants of the Dragon spacecraft: Crew Dragon, a spacecraft. SpaceX also launches private missions, such as Inspiration4 and Axiom Mission 1. Endeavour took its name from the British ship that Captain James Cook used on his first voyage of discovery in 1768-71. Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed and manufactured by American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, primarily for flights to the International Space Station (ISS). Endeavour utilized structural spares left over from construction of Discovery and Atlantis, as it was deemed cheaper to build the final Space Shuttle from spare parts rather than produce an entirely new craft. This model allows collectors to celebrate the end of an era and the remarkable 30-year lifespan of the Space Shuttle fleet. The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour is seen as it splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 a.m. It was produced as a replacement for Challenger, which was lost during in a tragic launch accident in 1986.

Dragon Space 1/400 Space Shuttle Endeavour w/SRB STS-88 - Memorable Missions of Space Shuttle (Space)Įndeavour (OV-105) was the final of six Space Shuttles to be built by Rockwell International, and its construction was authorized by the US Congress in 1987.

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