At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America’s space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets Thursday morning on its way to a temporary housing location in ...

When ready for display, 'Inspiration' will go to the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, California. The parts for a full-size space shuttle mockup are now about a city block closer to being ...

Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into space. Astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly rode the reusable, ...