A space shuttle has returned to NASA's Johnson Space Center almost a decade after it was last "flown." The shuttle, or more specifically, a simulator of the winged spacecraft's flight deck, which ...
NASA's long-running space shuttle program came to its end in 2011, but thanks to a recently signed agreement between the space agency and a Texas university, one of the winged spacecraft's iconic ...
A retired NASA space shuttle simulator that was used to prepare astronauts for the motion of the vehicle in flight has moved again, this time to enter its new museum home. The Shuttle Mission ...
I’ve been a space enthusiast for as long as I can remember. I was born in the same year as Apollo 11. I made my family interrupt a holiday in France so I could listen to the launch of the first Space ...
Tourists at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will be able to strap into a simulator and feel the mimicked gyrations of a shuttle launch as part of a $160-million expansion at the complex, ...
CHICAGO (CBS) --The Adler Planetarium lost out on its bid to host one of the four NASA space shuttles on Tuesday, but it will be getting the next best thing: the shuttle simulator used to train ...
We are proud to announce that the Alpha version of the next generation of the Space Shuttle Mission Simulator has been released to the Core Alpha Team for testing. At this point we cannot reveal more ...
As a person who really enjoys flying airplanes, I never thought I would ever say this, but flying a simulator can be as much fun as flying the real thing. Of course it helps when the simulator is a ...
A blaring roar and bone-rattling vibrations jolted the 38 astronauts as the shuttle's engines fired up. Seconds later, lift-off squeezed them into their seats, marking the successful inauguration of ...