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In November 1988, an unmanned Soviet space shuttle called Buran flew a full orbital mission and landed itself in a blizzard at Baikonur without a single human input, an…

On the morning of November 15, 1988, a Soviet spacecraft named Buran lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ...
Los Angeles Times

Space shuttle Endeavour is lifted into the sky, takes final position as star of new museum wing

The final journey for the last space shuttle ever built is complete. Set against the black backdrop of the night sky, a crane hoisted a white shrink-wrapped Endeavour 200 feet overhead before gently ...
KOMU 8

Inside look at the new Columbia Regional Airport parking lot and shuttle

A 700-vehicle south lot opens Monday at the Columbia Regional Airport, and COU will stop allowing parking in the grass. A ...
Space.com

NASA's space shuttle: The first reusable spacecraft

NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft. It launched like a rocket and returned to Earth like a glider, landing like an airplane on a long concrete runway. It was designed to ...