On Nov. 13, the California Science Center's Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will open to visitors as the final phase of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David M. Brown, a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia. What they didn’t know was that, during liftoff, a piece of ...

The space shuttle Endeavour, which took astronauts into orbit 25 times, went on display at the California Science Center on ...

Thirty years ago, the staff of the California Science Center had a vision of one day bringing a space shuttle to the City of ...

The lights drop. Smoke rolls across the auditorium, the seats shudder and a five-minute film carries the room through Space Shuttle Endeavour’s last climb to orbit. Then the backdrop rises—and there ...

The Space Shuttle's return to Earth was one of the most dangerous parts of its mission. With temperatures exceeding 1650°C and plasma blocking all communications for 12 minutes, the orbiter relied on ...

People got their first look on Wednesday, June 24 at the space shuttle Endeavour in its new home at the California Science ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection contains 17 digital images showing the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia upon its reentry on February 1, 2003. These ...

NASA's Space Shuttle program was a great idea in concept, but flawed execution led to its demise. Here are the problems it ...