A view from above of Atlantis' 60-foot-long payload bay. Atlantis' aft section as viewed from the side. The reflective insulation would normally be covered by one of the shuttle's two orbital ...

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 ...

Since you’ll probably never be an astronaut and since the Space Shuttle program is ending, you’re probably never going to see the innards of the massive machine in real life. It’s okay though, this ...

Last Friday, after 27 years of service, NASA powered down space shuttle Discovery for the very last time. This week, space shuttle Atlantis — which five months ago today touched down at Kennedy Space ...

Let's be honest — we’ve all wondered at least once about what it would be like to step inside NASA’s mission control facility in Houston, Texas, and we’ve definitely all wondered what it would be like ...

The California Science Center unveiled Tuesday the first of many launch vehicles, engines and other artifacts set to be installed in the museum’s 200,000-square-foot expansion coming to Exposition ...