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A simulator used to train the very first space shuttle crew is now on display at the Lone Star Flight Museum. The motion simulator trekked from a NASA hangar at Ellington Field to the museum’s ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. News media are invited Aug. 20, 2010 to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Vertical Motion Simulator, or ( VMS), a facility NASA uses to mimic a variety of aircraft and ...

The California Institute of Technology?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech/ JPL), operating under a prime contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), seek responses to ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A piece of NASA history made the steady trip to the Lone Star Flight Museum on Tuesday, where it is being permanently housed and on display for space enthusiasts. The Shuttle ...

The simulator was used by all 135 space shuttle crews to train for their missions between 1981 and 2011. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

HOUSTON — Texas A&M University will restore and operate NASA’s Space Shuttle Motion Simulator (SSMS), the hydraulically activated mock cockpit used to prepare astronauts for the dynamic launch and ...

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 ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. (Nov. 8, 2021) – Army pilots joined vertical lift experts from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center, Program Executive Office for ...

Kraken, the colossal spinning device hailing from the US Navy, has found a new purpose in aiding NASA scientists in their quest to unravel the mysteries of motion sickness experienced by astronauts in ...

NASA has begun the approval process to use CapFrameX, a popular benchmarking tool based on Intel’s PresentMon, for measuring FPS performance in its advanced flight simulator cockpit video systems.