[Gallery: Inside Space Shuttle ... including new replica numbered heat shield tiles, and a reinforced steel frame, Independence has also been upgraded with a new "glass cockpit" like the type ...

Shuttle experience Following "Shuttlebration Weekend," the replica will remain ... the cockpit with an all new cockpit like was flying on Atlantis on (the space shuttle program's) last flight ...

"I think it's cool because they had the space shuttle and they added the plane to make it a bigger landmark," Phillip said. Visitors will eventually be able to enter the replica cockpit ...

A full-size 123-foot space shuttle replica set sail Thursday from the ... the public will be able to enter the Explorer's cockpit and mid-deck as well as look into the payload bay.

Shuttle experience Following "Shuttlebration Weekend," the replica will remain ... the cockpit with an all new cockpit like was flying on Atlantis on [the space shuttle program's] last flight ...

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 ...

with multimedia exhibits going into the aircraft and an upgraded cockpit and crew cabin for the space shuttle mockup. Click through to collectSPACE.com to see more photographs of the replica space ...

Houston, we have a spacecraft. Or at least a replica. On Saturday morning, Space Center Houston launched Independence Plaza, a new exhibit that honors the space shuttle program and allows the ...

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.

ST. CLOUD — The space shuttle replica owned by a St. Cloud native touched down here this weekend following a weeklong journey from Florida to Minnesota. The trek took the 25-ton fuselage on ...

Early on Sunday, the replica will make the three ... to replace the cockpit with an all new cockpit like was flying on Atlantis on [the space shuttle program's] last flight," Allen said at a ...