Kennedy Space Center

A diva requires special handling and an entourage. Whatever the stage, the space shuttle Endeavour gets both. A constellation of engineers and assembly line workers designed and built the shuttle in Southern California. A universe of scientists hurled it...

There is a photography saying that sometimes the most important thing to do for a great photo is to “be there.” And when the “there” is from special access, the photos are often unique. A recent example was Wednesday’s final...

One leg of the space shuttle Endeavour's final journey has been delayed because of bad weather, but the craft will still arrive in Los Angeles on schedule Thursday, NASA announced Sunday. Endeavour was to travel from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape...

WASHINGTON -- Sorry, Houston, you didn’t get a space shuttle, but at least you’ll get a glimpse of the last one to fly -- on its way to L.A. NASA’s plans for delivering the retired shuttle Endeavour to its permanent home in California...

WASHINGTON -- The countdown has begun for delivery of the retired space shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles, the last orbiter that will fly out of Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a jet. L.A.’s welcome of the Endeavour is shaping up as splashier...

In its 25 missions spanning nearly two decades, the space shuttle Endeavour circled the Earth more than 4,600 times, spending a total of 299 days in space. It carried the crews that assembled the first U.S. component of the International Space Station,...

Space shuttle Endeavour will take a scenic route through Los Angeles on Friday, passing over some of the region's most popular landmarks. The shuttle is scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport around 11 a.m. Friday. But before it lands,...

This autumn and early winter will see the biggest change in Chicago's Museum Campus since Lake Shore Drive took a hard swing to the west to create the parkland connection of cultural institutions 14 years ago. This time, though, the alteration is not one...

There's a lot of shuffling of space shuttles going on, and you can watch some of it in action through tours and other opportunities at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Right now, space shuttle Endeavour is parked inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly...

Update: July 10, 2012: Stan Van Gundy has had a more exciting summer than we have. Our readers have sent in more photos from as far away as Hawaii, New York and Rome. See a gallery of the photos here. Update: June 13, 2012: Even more photos from our...

Hindsight being 20-20, we can look back on history and see the turning points, which are invisible to us as we're living through them. Automobiles have an approximately 120-year history (discounting some 18th century anomalies), and the milestones are now...

An unmanned moon lander under development crashed and burned during an engine test Thursday afternoon at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the space agency reported. There were no injuries in the failed test of the lander, dubbed "Morpheus." The craft had...