The Thad Cochran Test Stand is where NASA sets up the SLS components and conducts thorough testing to ensure they’ll be safe ...
The original full-size prototype design for the space shuttle traveled on a Downey street ... Rockwell International's successful bid to build NASA's shuttles. The mock-up moved to a renovation ...
And wonderfully, you can visit. The aptly named Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a full museum, with exhibits including a decommissioned Saturn V rocket, tons of memorabilia, and an actual ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A project to display a massive piece of NASA’s history, the first space shuttle ever built, has a local connection. The Inspiration, built in 1972, is traveling through the ...
On Episode 134 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq ... besides its uses as a technical simulator, this mockup was what closed the deal between NASA and Rockwell to build the shuttles and ...
NASA spent the last two weeks hoisting a 103-ton component onto a simulator and installing it to help prepare for the next Moon missions. Crews fitted the interstage simulator component onto the Thad ...