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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A two-tone pink rose flown on board the real space shuttle Atlantis in February 2008 was featured in the 2009 parade thanks to astronaut Rex Walheim and his brother Lance, a horticulturist with ...

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

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 ...

Visitors can also sign a real space shuttle tire and a banner to welcome Discovery. Space agency officials will be on hand to discuss what's next for NASA, including the next big rocket in the ...

It’s a full size model space shuttle? While it never quite made ... After receiving the contract to build the real space shuttles, Rockwell used the mostly wood and plastic model rocket as ...

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.