A Space Shuttle Has Landed in Minnesota: Soon, You Will Travel to Space Without Ever Leaving the Ground

A Space Shuttle Has Landed in Minnesota: Soon, You Will Travel to Space Without Ever Leaving the Ground

ST. CLOUD, Minn., Sept. 2, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Planning is underway for Inspiration Space Port, a year-round family destination that will place Shuttle Inspiration, a full-scale Space Shuttle mock-up, inside a towering 300-foot-wide, 175-foot-tall dome. Wrapped in a spectacular…

After travelling 122 million miles in orbit, retired space shuttle Endeavour needed 68 hours to cover its final 12 miles through Los Angeles — crawling at no more than 2 mph as crews removed more than 400 trees to clear its 78-foot wingspan

Endeavour could cross the Pacific in about twenty minutes. Getting it past a row of street trees on Manchester Boulevard took most of an afternoon. For nineteen years the orbiter did the genuinely difficult work without complaint. NASA’s mission record for STS-134, its final flight, puts the career total at 122,883,151 miles over 25 missions, 4,671 orbits and 299 days off the planet. Then it retired to Los Angeles, and the last twelve miles near…