Black side down,' Lego style Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing 747-based Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with a Space Shuttle perched on top.… It ...

This video details the lengthy process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit, primarily at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane (right, on runway) approaches Inspiration, a full-size space shuttle mockup, shortly after touching down at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility ...

The space shuttle model at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, ... which was flown throughout the country for demonstration purposes prior to the inaugural shuttle launch into in 1981. ...

Archival photograph showing the stacking of NASA's quarter-scale space shuttle engineering model for testing. (Image credit: NASA/CCSSC) The 30-foot-long (9 meters) orbiter, with its companion 38 ...

The shuttle model costs $199 and has more than 2,300 pieces. Aimed at adults, the model features realistic details like an opening payload bay, retractable landing gear, opening cockpit, space arm ...

Here are the seven iconic moments to expect on May 27 as US astronauts lift-off from US soil for the first time since the Space Shuttle’s final mission almost a decade ago.

Students gathered around model space shuttles. Teachers switched on TVs to show the often-delayed countdown. ... It would be 32 months before another shuttle left a launch pad.

The 122-foot-long-by-35-foot-tall space shuttle mockup, named the “Inspiration,” was transported via big rig in multiple parts 0.3 miles along Bellflower Boulevard from a city maintenance yard ...

The launch marks the first time a private company has sent a space capsule into orbit and brought it back safely. ... taking over the role of NASA's space shuttle. ... New Partnership Model.

But while the Space Shuttle came alive in the 80s, it was born 50 years ago on January 5, 1972, when President Richard Nixon announced that what NASA would take on as an encore to the Moon ...

In what may have been the first instance of online espionage, the Soviets built their own space shuttle based on thousands of documents acquired from U.S. sources. First of two parts, by NBC News ...