The original full-size prototype design for the space shuttle traveled on a Downey street Thursday for a stop at a renovation facility before it lands at a museum. It looks like it could fly with its ...

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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 preparation ...

The Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a roughly 40,000-square-foot expansion that will include indoor and outdoor science learning areas and space for ...

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