| This is a full size replica built to
a high standard in 1993 using NASA blueprints. It was
originally named “Explorer” and was displayed at the
Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, from 1993 to
2012, when it was replaced by the genuine Orbiter
“Atlantis”. It was then transferred by barge to the
Lyndon B Johnson Space Centre where it was refurbished
and renamed as the “Independence”. In 2016 it was
mounted on the genuine Boeing 747 shuttle carrier
‘N905NA’. On display at Space Centre Houston, Lyndon B
Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas.
20th March 2017. |
