Every NASA astronaut who ever rode aboard the space shuttle, more than 350 of them, first sat in its full-motion simulator. And even though the simulator was firmly on the ground, anchored inside ...

NASA's long-running space shuttle program came to its end in 2011, but thanks to a recently signed agreement between the space agency and a Texas university, one of the winged spacecraft's iconic ...

A Utah school is selling off its Star Trek-inspired USS Galileo, which means this is your chance to own your very own spaceship simulator. It’s perfectly practical ...

As a person who really enjoys flying airplanes, I never thought I would ever say this, but flying a simulator can be as much fun as flying the real thing. Of course it helps when the simulator is a ...

NASA and the Lone Star Flight Museum are inviting media to the final move of the Space Shuttle Motion Base Simulator to its new home at the museum, located at Ellington Field. The simulator, which ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --The Adler Planetarium lost out on its bid to host one of the four NASA space shuttles on Tuesday, but it will be getting the next best thing: the shuttle simulator used to train ...

I’ve been a space enthusiast for as long as I can remember. I was born in the same year as Apollo 11. I made my family interrupt a holiday in France so I could listen to the launch of the first Space ...

The English, French and German boxed versions of "Space Shuttle Mission Simulator: The Collector's Edition" have been released to retail channels, and are available for purchase in North America and ...

Houston, we have a problem: The U.S. Space Shuttle program is shutting down. After 30 years, two tragedies and 130 successful missions that seemed to make space flight almost routine, the shuttle ...

Growing up in the USA in the 1960s I was captivated by the space programme as we raced the Soviet Union to the Moon. Most of my generation can tell you where they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

HOUSTON — So you think you can pilot the space shuttle? NASA will give 30 of its Twitter followers a chance to test their skills at space shuttle ascent, rendezvous or landing aboard the same ...

I was a flight simulator maintenance tech for the Air Force from 1974 to 1986 and getting anywhere near the shuttle sim would have been a real joy. The best I've managed was a short ride in the back ...