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In Downey, A Space Shuttle Hides in Plain Sight
The Columbia Memorial Space Center may soon house the first Space Shuttle ever built, but for now, the mockup sits under tarps at the Municipal Maintenance Service Yard in the City of Downey, California. The shuttle played a key role in testing and refining many of the technologies that eventually contributed to the construction of the Space Shuttles Challenger and Endeavour.
