Postage Stamp Model NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour

Recall America’s triumph in space exploration with a postage stamp model of the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour complete with its five engines and faithfully replicated heat tiles. Space Shuttle Endeavour completed its final mission on June 1st, 2011. In orbit, the Space Shuttle Endeavour made significant contributions in furthering human exploration, saved the Hubble Space Telescope on the first mission to fix the observatory and delivered the first U.S. part to the International Space Station for the assembling of the national laboratory in space. Currently, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is being prepared for its retirement to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Fully assembled, painted and pad printed, this diecast postage stamp model of the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour features American flags and NASA logos. Some small plastic parts. Scale 1:300. Ages 14 and up.  5"l. x 3"w. x 3"h.

Museum Provenance

The space shuttle Discovery is on exhibit In the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum. One of the world’s finest collections of model aircraft and spacecraft is housed in the National Air and Space Museum.

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