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 ...

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 ...

comes with the space shuttle kit and is also rendered in stunning detail and can even fit inside Discovery's payload bay just like in real life. Discovery has payload bay doors that open ...

On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101.

As a result, the shuttle's glass cockpit with its multiple ... Air & Space Museum. See space shuttle Discovery’s payload bay doors close in collectSPACE.com’s Photo Gallery.