We always have it on our list to learn more about Orbiter. If you haven’t seen ... you can very accurately model spacecraft like the Space Shuttle and have very realistic controls.

And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...

A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about 75 miles above sea level and speeds close to 17,500 ...

A full-size mockup of the space shuttle orbiter that was built as a contractor's showcase model before NASA decided on the ...

The parts for a full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city ... The City of Downey in California began relocating the winged orbiter "Inspiration" from a maintenance yard — where it ...

This mission – which was never carried out – would influence the design of the Space Shuttle orbiter more than any other mission. During this 90-minute mission, the Earth would rotate under ...

The new podcast 16 Sunsets opens with archive audio from Nasa’s mission control in 1981, in the build-up to the first flight ...

a smooth countdown to launch Space Shuttle Mission STS-93, a five-person crew, and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory abruptly ended twenty years ago just before ignition of Orbiter Columbia’s three ...

Before leaving the space shuttle to perform tasks in space ... emergency situation in which the crew must parachute from the orbiter. The suit has inflatable bladders that fill it with oxygen ...

Many of us have visited the various displays of space shuttles around the US, and it's always a spectacular sight. The shuttle orbiter was huge, and seeing in any configuration is inspirational.

The more than 120-foot-long Inspiration space shuttle mock-up will ... was created in 1972 as part of a former shuttle contractor’s process of building an orbiter for NASA.

After another launch scrub for weather, Space Shuttle mission STS-93 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida twenty years ago in 1999 to begin an eventful ascent into low Earth ...