Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995 ... mission control only about 15 percent of the time while in orbit. A glass cockpit, with 11 flat panel color displays, replaced 32 dials and gauges starting ...

In this adapted excerpt, he recounts his STS-98 space shuttle crew ... overhead window in the aft cockpit, fingers curled around the hand controller for the shuttle’s maneuvering thrusters.

Operating in orbit demands engineering solutions beyond what any airliner or rocket could offer—and the Space Shuttle delivered ... of 44 thrusters and dual cockpit control stations enabled ...

U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduced a new bill on Thursday called the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act, which ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia.

If Congress decides to grant Houston a space shuttle, Space Center CEO William Harris says the city is far more ready than it was a decade ago.