It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a full size model space shuttle? While it never quite made it to space, the full-size original space shuttle prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's ...

DOWNEY, Calif. (CNS) -- It never went into space, but a full-size original space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's ultimately successful bid to build NASA's ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...

In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...

In 1944, as Germany faced defeat, Nazi engineers proposed one of the most ambitious aircraft concepts in history: the Silbervogel, or “Silver Bird.” Designed by Eugen Sänger and Irene Bredt, it was a ...

One way or another, we’re going to make sure Johnson Space Center gets its historic spacecraft right where it belongs.” ...