Once complete - and the rest of the museum is constructed in the coming years - L.A. will be home to the only retired space shuttle displayed in a full-stack arrangement as if ready for launch.
It is extremely sensitive to get it in exactly the right position. It puts all the attached hardware in the right place on the orbiter. And several of the pieces inside the orbiter that it attaches to are very fragile, so they will do this very slowly.
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