NASA 945, a Shuttle Training Aircraft, is seen on display behind a full-scale space shuttle exhibit at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Thursday, July 13, 2017. (Image ...

Space Center Houston is offering a first look inside the space shuttle Independence. NASA's Johnson Space Center provided collectSPACE.com an exclusive first walkthrough.

Cover image on the issue dated March 6, 2000 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. MEDS Glass Cockpit To Enhance Shuttle Safety. Enjoy unlimited access to the complete Aviation Week Archive ...

For our June 20 training flight, Ferguson and Hurley, wearing those same iconic launch and re-entry suits, flew specially modified Grumman Gulfstream II aircraft known as Shuttle Training Aircraft ...

DIAGNOSE THYSELF: One of the advancements in the space shuttle's Cockpit Avionics Upgrade Program, or "smart cockpit" (DAILY, Aug. 24), will be an enhanced caution and warning system capable of ...

A space shuttle crew compartment trainer, a mock-up of the shuttle nose and cockpit that trained hundreds of astronauts for space, was carried aloft on a whale-shaped turboprop aircraft from ...

A space shuttle crew cabin took off with a veteran astronaut on Wednesday morning (June 27), but rather than the shuttle lofting the pilot, it was the astronaut — flying a large NASA cargo plane ...

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is home to Space Camp®, Aviation Challenge®, the Apollo 16 capsule, the Saturn V Rocket—a National Historic Landmark and world-class ...

On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101. NASA ...

Engle entered formal flight training with the U.S. Air Force ... These remarkable flights originated from the back of a Boeing 747 launch aircraft that carried the space shuttle to its 25,000-foot ...

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 ...