F2, a prototype that would eventually serve as a model for the Space Shuttle, flies gracefully through a clear sky. Everything goes wrong, however, as it attempts to land, and the voice of a man in ...

Four years later, the shuttle Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... as part of its Town theme of building kits. It was a much less detailed model, built from just 342 ...

CHANTILLY, Va. — The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax ...

Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. This model kit allows the purchaser to build an accurate model of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Columbia was the first space shuttle to fly in ...

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

“It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger ... I built Apollo rockets out of Revell model kits, gluing dozens of pieces together and applying decals with pride. I wore spacesuits on Halloween.

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 ...

If you like crafty projects and tinkering with mechanical parts, building models kits is probably one of your hobbies. It’s satisfying to work with your hands on a model kit, plus you get to ...

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...

In 2012, it was affectionately given the name "Inspiration," as the original design model for the space shuttle program. More than 10 years ago, however, Inspiration was disassembled and placed in ...

Upon its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration, keeping astronauts space-bound with a reusable and relatively cheap ride into orbit. It was a ...

ST. CLOUD — Downtown St. Cloud could be the home of the Inspiration Mock Orbiter, a NASA-built model of the space shuttle. Currently owned by local inventor and founder of LVX System ...