The final stacking of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

According to the Adafruit Blog, the California Science Center achieved a monumental engineering milestone: the vertical stacking of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The process, called 'Go for Stack,' involved precisely moving and lifting each of the shuttle's components into place to create a twenty-story high display. This marks the first time such a feat has been accomplished outside of a NASA facility, and Endeavour is now the only complete stack of authentic, flight-qualified space shuttle hardware on public display.

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