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 ...

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 ...

The simulator was used by all 135 space shuttle crews to train for their missions between 1981 and 2011. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Every NASA astronaut who ever rode aboard the space shuttle, more than 350 of them, first sat in its full-motion simulator. And even though the simulator was firmly on the ground, anchored inside ...

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 ...

While it didn’t get one of NASA’s four space shuttles, Adler Planetarium will be getting a shuttle flight simulator that has already seeded plans for a possible space exploration pavilion on the ...

From the very first Space Shuttle Columbia Mission to Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Get a real detailed feel of what it was like to fly the magnificent US Space Shuttle. Detailed switches ...

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 ...