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Exclusive! Inside Independence: First look at Houston space shuttle's new cockpit [i]For the first time, Space Center Houston is offering a look inside its space shuttle Independence. Space Center Houston, the official visitor attraction for the Johnson Space Center in Texas, invited collectSPACE on an exclusive first walkthrough of the newly-upgraded, high-fidelity shuttle replica, before the winged orbiter is hoisted atop NASA's historic Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for display. The 160,000-pound (72,575-kilogram) shuttle mockup is to be lifted by a 180-foot-tall (55 meter) crane and mounted on the back of the modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet on Aug. 14, weather permitting. The six-story exhibit, which Space Center Houston expects to open to the public in 2015, will recreate the way the shuttle orbiters were flown across the country between landing, processing and launch sites. It will also provide visitors the chance to go inside both the aircraft and shuttle...[/i]
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