Space shuttle Atlantis, which flew the final mission of NASA's 30-year shuttle program in July 2011, is now being prepared to be publically displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in ...

NEW YORK—The space ... interior as a perk. The inside is mostly stripped aside from structural elements, curator Eric Boehm told us, which gives it a surprisingly cavernous feel for a shuttle ...

Orion is intended to replace the aging space shuttle fleet and carry astronauts to the international space station, the moon and beyond. The spacecraft, being developed by Houston's Johnson Space ...

Fifty years ago Monday at 8:47 a.m. CST John Glenn blasted off into space, squeezed into the cramped interior of a Mercury ... The last space shuttle flight was in July, and the United States ...

The blue squares are Velcro, which is placed liberally around the shuttle's interior to allow astronauts to secure weightless items. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest ...

The rocket center will next work with Marshall Space Flight Center to assess the interior structure. The Pathfinder shuttle stack was erected at the Rocket Center in 1988, and it has remained the ...

resulting in the most comprehensive captures of a Space Shuttle interior ever assembled – the goal is to render ultra-res VR experiences by which individuals will be able to don eyewear such as ...

Before heading to its final resting place, National Geographic snapped over two dozen high-resolution panoramas of the interior of space shuttle Discovery. Before heading to its final resting ...

According to the Orlando Sentinel, one NASA survey of 300 astronauts found that "nearly 30 percent of those who have flown on space shuttle missions – which usually lasted two weeks – and 60 ...