The flight deck aboard the space shuttle Independence at Space Center Houston has been outfitted with a new "glass cockpit," as first revealed here. The flight deck aboard the space shuttle ...

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...

Some people in the Seattle region might have been disappointed last year when we didn’t land a real space shuttle. But after getting a behind-the-scenes look at the space shuttle trainer being ...

NASA has released the first-ever up close, high-definition video taken from inside a space shuttle during “towback” following a landing. Shuttle Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on ...

Here’s a simple visual exercise you can do to get a better feel for the approximate living area inside one of our amazingly complex and now-retired space shuttles. You’ll need three adults. Have them ...

The view of shuttle Discovery's payload bay from inside the orbiter, with the iconic American flag at the rear. The huge cargo area is 15 feet (4.6 meters) wide and 60 feet (18 m) long. When Discovery ...

What the astronauts saw: Looking through the windows of the Full Fuselage Trainer at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Some people in the Seattle region might have been disappointed last year when we didn’t ...

Video captured from a camera inside a Carolina Livery shuttle bus on the morning of April 10 shows the moment of the fatal Durham gas explosion. Richard Meyers was driving a downtown shuttle bus for ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery's ride to retirement, NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), has come a long way since it first took to the air in the 1970s as an ...

Christmas came a week early for me this year. I was invited by NASA along with a few other photographers to climb aboard shuttle Atlantis to photograph the flight deck. I thought it would be a great ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. HOUSTON — For the first time, Space Center Houston is offering a look inside its space shuttle ...