At 4:53pm EST Tuesday 24th February, Discovery blasted off two minutes and fifty-three seconds late for its final launch into space. After a tense few moments with an Air Force computer problem, ...
LOS ANGELES – It’s a surreal sight residents won’t soon forget: a hulking space shuttle strutting down city streets, pausing every so often to get its bearings as it creeps toward retirement.
The arrival of Endeavour in Los Angeles last week has been described by many as the final note in the coda to NASA’s shuttle program. To commemorate its end, we turned to the program’s beginnings, ...