The flight deck aboard the space shuttle Independence at Space Center Houston has been outfitted with a new "glass cockpit," as first revealed here. The flight deck aboard the space shuttle ...

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...

Ken Kremer, Kennedy Space Center: As Shuttle Discovery was being processed in the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for her very final mission of exploration (STS 133), I interviewed the Space ...

The view of shuttle Discovery's payload bay from inside the orbiter, with the iconic American flag at the rear. The huge cargo area is 15 feet (4.6 meters) wide and 60 feet (18 m) long. When Discovery ...

The Space Shuttle Enterprise is finally in its new (temporary) home, housed on the Flight Deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The Space Shuttle Pavilion will open to the public today around ...

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 ...

What the astronauts saw: Looking through the windows of the Full Fuselage Trainer at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Some people in the Seattle region might have been disappointed last year when we didn’t ...

Christmas came a week early for me this year. I was invited by NASA along with a few other photographers to climb aboard shuttle Atlantis to photograph the flight deck. I thought it would be a great ...

Video captured from a camera inside a Carolina Livery shuttle bus on the morning of April 10 shows the moment of the fatal Durham gas explosion. Richard Meyers was driving a downtown shuttle bus for ...

Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach seated inside the Shuttle Firing Room 4 and backdropped by tributes to Orbiters Columbia and Challenger he inspired and designed. Launch Director Leinbach gives ...