HOUSTON — As the final space shuttle training simulations take place at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the agency is giving journalists an unprecedented view of the crew and Mission Control ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's last space shuttle mockup still on its astronaut training room floor has landed a new ...

Personnel from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and Edwards Air Force Base conducted a training exercise this past weekend that would enable them to effectively handle the rescue of a Space ...

New University Shuttle drivers will be required to complete 66 hours of cumulative classroom and road session training prior to starting their positions, an increase from the 54 hours currently ...

Thirty years ago, Bob Crippen was on the first space shuttle crew. Twenty-four years ago, his daughter Susan became part of the space effort as well, taking a job as a shuttle crew trainer at NASA's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – As a journalist you become used to, comfortable even, with covering events from the periphery, from the outside. On a recent training flight, that comfortable veneer disappeared ...

A retired NASA space shuttle simulator that was used to prepare astronauts for the motion of the vehicle in flight has moved again, this time to enter its new museum home. The Shuttle Mission ...

Eileen Collins in space in 1995, when she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle. NASA via Getty Images “Houston, Columbia. Wheels down,” said Col. Eileen Collins, 20 years ago, just as the ...