The Space Shuttle flew on 135 missions between 1981 and 2011. Credit: US Mint. ... casings, and main engines are all repurposed and refurbished from Space Shuttle craft.

Bring a piece of aerospace history into your home with the new (and gigantic) Lego Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.Lego Insiders can pick up the 2,417-piece set for $230 at Lego's online store, while ...

Here are the best star projectors for kids ahead of Amazon Prime Day — we've tested and reviewed the very best the market has to offer.

There were high hopes for launching the space shuttle Discovery from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1983, ... The craft weighs 148,000 pounds empty and will weigh about 210,00 pounds in flight.

On the same trip, the Marshall Space Flight Center, where her aunt and uncle worked, had a “take your child to work" day. Pretending to be their kids, Vo-Cohen and her brother toured the ...

The 122-foot-long, 35-foot-tall mock-up space shuttle was built as a prototype and part of Rockwell International's successful bid to build NASA's shuttles.

This 1972-made space shuttle mock-up, which is 122 feet long, will soon make its way through the streets of Downey — in pieces — on its way to the Columbia Memorial Space Center, where it will ...