Inside a warehouse in Downey, California, a one-winged space shuttle sits underneath a blanket of Tyvek sheeting. It’s not a real space shuttle. Well, it sort of is? Let’s just say it played a ...

has been moved out of the complex to make room for a new exhibit which will feature a real space shuttle. NASA crews slowly took the model on Sunday to the Launch Complex 39 turn basin ...

The Museum of Flight didn’t get a real Space Shuttle, but it was granted a shuttle trainer. Now that the disappointment is over. The museum thinks it might have gotten a better deal. The trainer ...

There is a moment in the new Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex when a fantasy becomes reality and the experience is nothing short of magical.

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 ...

Sadly, these hopes would prove hollow as the luster of the idea of a true Space Shuttle collided with the gritty realities of the real Space Shuttle's actual design and the limits of its 1970's ...

LOS ANGELES — Space shuttle Endeavour debuted on public display Tuesday (Oct.

Time to ditch the black armbands and look beyond low Earth orbit again. The shuttle’s passing marks the start of an exciting new era AND then there were none. A profound feeling of emptiness ...

In Florida, its departure cleared the way for the arrival of the real space shuttle Atlantis, which will open for display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in the summer of 2013.

Some Seattleites might wish they had a "real" space shuttle in their aerospace-centric city, but Bolden argued that the mockup was a perfect match for the museum. "I hope I don't get in trouble ...

However, that’s not the Saturn V rocket used on 1969’s Apollo 11 mission. It’s a Space Shuttle. The first Shuttle launch wasn’t until Columbia in 1981. The Saturn V was a modular rocket ...