Endeavour: A California Story
In 2011, NASA awarded Space Shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center, in part because of California’s rich aerospace history and the role it played in the Space Shuttle Program. Content development for Endeavour: A California Story had three main goals: to introduce guests to Space Shuttle Endeavour, to relate compelling stories of the shuttle’s history in California, and to keep people entertained as they waited, perhaps for hours, in this gallery for admission to see Space Shuttle Endeavour itself. As a result, graphic panels for Endeavour: A California Story featured more text than typical for a more interactive exhibition, but images and content were carefully selected to bring Endeavour and California into focus.
Endeavour Together: Parts and People
The addition of a huge space shuttle external tank to the California Science Center’s collection brought about the need for a partial overhaul to an existing exhibition, designed to entertain guests as they waited for admission to see Space Shuttle Endeavour. To meet the need while staying within an extremely tight budget, we developed a new storyline that could unite newly introduced artifacts with existing graphic panels and exhibits.
Mission 26: The Big Endeavour
The California Science Center developed a photography exhibit to capture the historic events surrounding Space Shuttle Endeavour’s transport across the country and through the streets of the Los Angeles area. Challenges during included selecting the best photos from hundreds of available shots, determining chronology of images without timestamps, and pinpointing photo locations by cross-referencing time and a map of the shuttle’s route. The exhibit also incorporated artwork by local elementary students that were inspired by seeing the shuttle, as well as a comment wall that visitors could use to submit their own thoughts about the shuttle move. Text in this gallery was extremely minimal—the images carried the majority of the story.
Mission 26: ET Comes Home
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Exploring the Planets and Stars
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Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center (coming soon)
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