The soon-to-be Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will double the amount of exhibit space at the California Science Center.

What does it take to stand half a million pounds of spacecraft on end, in earthquake country, and invite the public to walk ...

Maybe? NASA delay puts shuttle launch on same day as royal wedding. April 4, 2011 — -- Astronaut Mark Kelly and his wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, have never met Prince William and his bride, ...

On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69. This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA. Endeavour lifted off from NASA's historic launch site at ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Crews are taking another big step this week in getting the retired Space Shuttle Endeavour in place for its final display at the California Science Center. Workers started early ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted into orbit this morning on what was to be the longest space station mission ever, a 16-day voyage to build a gangly robot and add ...

Today's the day: the long-delayed launch of the Endeavour is set for 8:56 am EST from Cape Canaveral, Florida. After wrestling with several weeks of technical glitches after a hydraulic system failure ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts unfurled a 100-foot, laser-tipped pole and surveyed their ship for any launch damage Saturday while drawing ever closer to their destination ...

CAPE CANAVERAL -- In an unprecedented step, a space shuttle was moved to the launch pad Friday for a trip NASA hopes it will never make — a rescue mission. The shuttle Endeavour is on standby in case ...

* Liftoff scheduled for 6:03 p.m. EDT/2203 GMT * Sixty percent chance of suitable weather for launch * Shuttle carries last piece of Japan's space station lab * Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata to ...

A survey of space shuttle Atlantis' outer body has revealed that four tiles on the right side have "some dings" in them, the flight director said Tuesday. "As we were going through the surveys we did ...