The Smithsonian plans to display the shuttle with its bay doors ... cockpit with its multiple computer screens and its backlit switches will from now on be dark. [Photos: See Inside Space Shuttle ...

The T-shaped structure’s main feature is the SVMF high-bay itself, which is oriented northwest-southeast and capped at the southeast end by an enormous pair of sliding doors (used to install or ...

On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big ...

Some people in the Seattle region might have been disappointed last year when we didn’t land a real Space Shuttle ... The nose of the shuttle, housing the cockpit and living quarters, will ...

Amazing pictures of the shuttle Atlantis cockpit reveal just how complicated it is to fly into space, with astronauts confronted by a huge array of buttons and screens. The shuttle program ended ...

NASA’s era of flying the space shuttle fleet may have come to an end, but three weeks ago a new era began for the shuttle Atlantis. On June 29, Florida’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex ...

For those on the tram tour, two shuttle program cockpit simulators have been relocated to an empty space outside of the ... there just walked out of the door. As visitors leave the SAIL for ...

Of course it helps when the simulator is a replica of the space shuttle cockpit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. On a recent assignment for AOPA Pilot magazine, I arrived early for an ...