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CHANTILLY, Virginia (CNN) --The first space shuttle is now a museum piece. First rolled out by Rockwell International in Palmdale, California, in 1976, Enterprise was towed into the McDonnell ...
An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy.
If Congress decides to grant Houston a space shuttle, Space Center CEO William Harris says the city is far more ready than it was a decade ago.
Dane Penland The heaviest object in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, is undoubtedly the space shuttle Enterprise. The prize for most unwieldy, however, goes to a 700-pound ...
Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery ... Endeavour and the prototype Enterprise went on display for the public's ...
A ceremony with astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, followed where Discovery was displayed nose-to-nose with Space Shuttle Enterprise. Among the attendees were Mike ...