Launch set for Shuttle-747 display

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Space Center Houston on Wednesday (Aug 12) set the opening date for Independence Plaza, its $12 million, eight-story-tall exhibit of a space shuttle replica on top of NASA’s first Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The nonprofit center will invite its guests to tour inside both the orbiter and modified Boeing 747 jetliner beginning Jan. 23, 2016. Both vehicles will include exhibits dedicated to telling the history of the space shuttle era.

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