by JAKE WHITTENBERG / KING 5 News

KING5.com

Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:45 AM

Updated today at 9:00 AM

For Geoff Nunn, Exhibit Developer at Seattles Museum of Flight, achieving his dream comes in small chunks.

Every week, new boxes arrive from NASA carrying pieces of the space shuttle trainer, the replica space shuttle that will soon be the newest exhibit at the museum.

Every box includes small pieces of the trainer that will need to be assembled like a giant erector set. Thats Nunns job.

Its a dream come true, said Nunn. As a boy he remembers growing up in Texas and taking tours of the Johnson Space Center in Houston. I got to see how the astronauts did it behind the scenes now I get to share my experiences with the public.

Right now, NASA is boxing up the final pieces in Houston. For the past 30 years, the full replica shuttle has been used to train astronauts before flying into space.

Everything is exact, all the way down to the table cloths, says Nunn.

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Space shuttle trainer boxed up for flight to Seattle