To get ready for Endeavour's grand move, crews will begin installation of the base of the shuttle's full stack on July 20 at the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

Once complete — and the rest of the museum is constructed in the coming years — L.A. will be home to the only retired space shuttle displayed in a full-stack arrangement as if ready for launch.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX pushed one day for weather and has delayed again the next Falcon Heavy launch of a secretive spacecraft that’s a fourth the size of the space shuttle.

Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2) prepares for an unpowered but smooth landing on the desert area of Edwards Air Force Base in California in 1981. NASA. Planetary scientist and pilot Tom Jones had a ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifted Into Launch Position at California Science Center. A 450-foot crane lifted the 170,000-pound orbiter into the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s.. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Mission: Challenger’s crew made the first shuttle night launch and landing, deployed the INSAT-1B communications satellite, and tested the Canadian RMS by maneuvering a 7,350-pound (3,333 ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

After test glide and landings upon release from aircraft in 1977, the Space Shuttle began orbital flights in April 1981. The shuttle would launch 135 times from Florida — but only 133 would land ...