Rockwell International became a Cold War aerospace and defense giant behind the B-1 Lancer, Space Shuttle, Rocketdyne engines, missiles, avionics and advanced aircraft.

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a full size model space shuttle? While it never quite made it to space, the full-size original space shuttle prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch America's space shuttle program paraded down Downey streets ...

A space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 will move through the streets of Downey ahead of being displayed at the Columbia Memorial Space Center. DOWNEY, Calif. (CNS) -- It never went into space, ...

DOWNEY — It never went into space, but a full-size original space shuttle design prototype built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International’s ultimately successful bid to build NASA’s shuttles will ...