Shuttle Endeavour’s final mission for a new home and space exploration
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Los Angeles is an integral part of space shuttle Endeavour’s journey. The California Science Center is building a new, larger home for the shuttle, which will make it the only place in the world to see a complete shuttle system with its equipment in launch position. The project – years in the making – still has a long road ahead. LAist reporter Makenna Sievertson takes Imperfect Paradise inside the museum’s expansion, discusses Endeavour’s significance to LA and space exploration.
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| 0:33.7 | This is in Perfect Paradise. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm your host, Nereida Moreno. |
| 0:39.4 | The space race is accelerating into new territory as the U.S. and other countries expand commercial spaceflight, |
| 0:46.3 | race back to the moon and aspire to land on Mars. It's a reawakening of the unprecedented scientific space exploration from decades ago. Competition among |
| 0:55.4 | companies like Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX has fueled groundbreaking |
| 1:00.6 | technological and scientific discoveries and a surge of new space missions. SpaceX appears to have |
| 1:07.4 | finally figured out how to get this version of the vehicle back through the Earth's atmosphere intact and without losing contact. |
| 1:14.1 | This new scaled-up version of the spacecraft is the most powerful rocket ever constructed and could one day take humans to Mars. |
| 1:20.6 | Now, Bayesars is trying to catch up. |
| 1:22.6 | A live webcast from Blue Origin showed the massive Newblen rockets rising through clear skies. |
| 1:31.9 | But so much of what's being done today is built on the foundation from NASA's space shuttle |
| 1:36.4 | program and its fleet. Its shuttles were the first reusable spacecrafts that redefined the |
| 1:41.4 | boundaries of space and our knowledge of it. |
| 1:49.0 | In today's episode, we're traveling through space and time to the only place in the world where you'll be able to see a complete space shuttle system with all of its equipment |
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