The new shuttle orbiter Atlantis glass cockpit has nine Honeywell Multifunctional Electronic Subsystems (MEDS) liquid crystal displays (see page 54). Atlantis is set for launch with the new system ...

Here are the two former astronauts being added to the Hall of Fame at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Former astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts to create a definitive oral history of the space shuttle program.

Eileen Collins in space in 1995, when she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle. NASA via Getty Images “Houston, Columbia. Wheels down,” said Col. Eileen Collins, 20 years ago, just ...

— A NASA aircraft that astronauts used to learn how to land from orbit has touched down on display at the Alabama home of U.S. Space Camp, in the shadow of a winged orbiter like the type it ...

Veteran space shuttle commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson speaks at the dedication ceremony for NASA 945, a Shuttle Training Aircraft, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on July 13, 2017.

It will also provide visitors the chance to go inside both the aircraft and shuttle. The 747 was transported to Space Center Houston in late April, arriving in several large parts.

A team including Space Camp alumni from around the world and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Foundation is raising awareness and embarking on their first 60-day crowd-funding campaign to bring a ...

The official Space Camp has launched a crowd-funding campaign for a new exhibit that will feature a NASA Shuttle Training Aircraft for shuttle flights.

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 ...

The Space Shuttle was the first reusable space vehicle - one that could return to Earth and land like an aircraft. Each orbiter was designed to have a life span of 100 launches.

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 ...