Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into space. Astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly rode the reusable, ...

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...

Construction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will be completed by mid-2025. The new home of NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour has reached new heights, and the California Science ...

California. The parts for a full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being reassembled and restored for public display. The City of Downey in California began relocating ...

Jan. 3—The public got a last chance on Sunday, Dec 31 to see the historic Space Shuttle Endeavour on display at the California Science Center, and the spacecraft is not to be seen again for ...

The original full-size prototype design for the space shuttle traveled on a Downey ... Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News ...

nearly doubling the California Science Center's educational exhibition space. The centerpiece exhibit at the expansion will be the space shuttle Endeavour, which earlier this year was positioned ...

A historic mock space shuttle made its way to its temporary ... "I really want people in Southern California to know this is your story, this is our story, this is our heritage.

back to the top- Spacesuits for the space shuttle era are pressurized at 4.3 pounds per square inch (psi), but because the gas in the suit is 100 percent oxygen instead of 20 percent, the person ...

The more than 120-foot-long Inspiration space shuttle mock-up will be taking ... of innovation and science and technology in Southern California,” he said. The move will kick-off at 9 a.m ...

but its real strength is you can very accurately model spacecraft like the Space Shuttle and have very realistic controls. In order to spur development, the program is now open source. We think ...

The original full-size prototype design for the space shuttle will travel on a Downey street Thursday ... Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC ...