A space shuttle has returned to NASA's Johnson Space Center almost a decade after it was last "flown." The shuttle, or more specifically, a simulator of the winged spacecraft's flight deck, which ...

A retired NASA space shuttle simulator that was used to prepare astronauts for the motion of the vehicle in flight has moved again, this time to enter its new museum home. The Shuttle Mission ...

NASA's long-running space shuttle program came to its end in 2011, but thanks to a recently signed agreement between the space agency and a Texas university, one of the winged spacecraft's iconic ...

Every NASA astronaut who ever rode aboard the space shuttle, more than 350 of them, first sat in its full-motion simulator. And even though the simulator was firmly on the ground, anchored inside ...

While it didn’t get one of NASA’s four space shuttles, Adler Planetarium will be getting a shuttle flight simulator that has already seeded plans for a possible space exploration pavilion on the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The Adler Planetarium lost out on its bid to host one of the four NASA space shuttles on Tuesday, but it will be getting the next best thing: the shuttle simulator used to train ...

As a person who really enjoys flying airplanes, I never thought I would ever say this, but flying a simulator can be as much fun as flying the real thing. Of course it helps when the simulator is a ...

I’ve been a space enthusiast for as long as I can remember. I was born in the same year as Apollo 11. I made my family interrupt a holiday in France so I could listen to the launch of the first Space ...

While it didn’t get one of NASA’s four space shuttles, Adler Planetarium will be getting a shuttle flight simulator that has already seeded plans for a possible space exploration pavilion on the ...

We’ll get more than a batch of new action movies over the Memorial Day weekend. The Kennedy Space Center in Florida is debuting the Shuttle Launch Experience, a $60 million simulator that’s supposed ...

We are proud to announce that the Alpha version of the next generation of the Space Shuttle Mission Simulator has been released to the Core Alpha Team for testing. At this point we cannot reveal more ...

The next version of the Space Shuttle Mission Simulator has been revealed at the I/ITSEC 2010 show, at the NASA STEM booth today at 09:00 ET. The official name of the ...