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The space shuttle Discovery is more complex, cramped, and altogether more awesome from the inside than I ever imagined. And in 2011, NASA retired the orbiter – the oldest flying shuttle – to ...

HOUSTON — For the first time, Space Center Houston is offering a look inside its space shuttle Independence. Space Center Houston, the official visitor attraction for the Johnson Space Center in ...

During a trip to Seattle last week, I spent a Sunday afternoon checking out the inside of a space shuttle cockpit. This was one of the coolest things I've done in a while. Black Ops 7, Invincible ...

The interior of the trainer mirrors an actual Space Shuttle orbiter in almost every way imaginable — from the placement of the controls to the shape of the toilet. Stepping inside is a chance to ...

NASA had never launched a Space Shuttle at such a low temperature ... the inrushing air pulling the fuselage asunder from the inside,” writes Higginbotham. The last communication from the ...

You’d think space would be the one place where computer users would be spared the travails of printing, but as [Ken Shirriff] outlines, there were printers aboard the Space Shuttle, and the ...

Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests ...

After the Space Shuttle Columbia accident ... I got access to a few of them to convey their roles to the public. I met Deal inside the Air Force’s Cheyenne Mountain blast-hardened fortress ...

The full-stack launch position of Endeavour is rare; no other space shuttle is displayed in such a way. In fact, for the last 11 years, Endeavour has rested in a horizontal position inside the ...

Hundreds of cars lined the roads inside and outside the base as onlookers ... The Air Force has spent $2.5 billion to build the space shuttle launch complex. Construction included the pouring ...

It was 56 years ago last week—January 27, 1967—that astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives in a launch pad fire inside their Apollo 1 spacecraft as they were ...