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 ...

The California Science Center unveiled Tuesday the first of many launch vehicles, engines and other artifacts set to be installed in the museum’s 200,000-square-foot expansion coming to Exposition ...

On Thursday, KSC officials unveiled the Axiom Mission 1 Flight Suit which will be displayed inside Space Shuttle Atlantis. The flight suit is another way guests can Discover Something Real at the ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Here's our review of the Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Is it up there with the best Lego space sets available? Read on ...

"On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on ...

Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ Did a 27-year-old with perfect vision and admitted pickiness help prevent disaster on the space shuttle? NASA may never know, but the manager of the shuttle program said ...

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