On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101. NASA ...

SEATTLE, WA – Seattle marked a historic celebration of India’s 79th Independence Day as the Indian national flag was hoisted for the first time ever atop the city’s iconic Space Needle. The milestone, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On April 18, 1961, Officials in Seattle began work on the Space Needle. Crews broke ground on a project that was going to be part of the next year’s World’s Fair. Construction ...

Space Needle anniversary: Seattle icon has turned heads since 1961 Space Needle construction began in 1961 and wrapped in just eight months. The 605-foot landmark remains the Pacific Northwest’s top ...

Seattle’s plan to overhaul the cultural campus around the Space Needle is colliding with a basic dilemma: The city is running out of legal room to raise taxes. That’s why Mayor Katie Wilson is ...

The energy-efficient EBW metal welding technology was developed through joint research with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) . Because gravity affects molten metal flow within the weld ...

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly causing over $240,000 worth of damage at the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit at the foot of Seattle’s famed Space Needle, according to police.

The owners of the Space Needle have purchased part of Seattle’s Pacific Science Center for $17.25 million, public records show. The transaction officially closed Monday after news of the pending ...

A piece of the Pacific Science Center is coming under the ownership of the privately owned Seattle Space Needle. The nonprofit Pacific Science Center, after massive revenue losses and increased public ...

The Boeing IMAX theater, the biggest IMAX theatre in the state, has been closed since Feb. 1 and will be sold to a new owner: the Space Needle Corporation, the Pacific Science Center confirmed in an ...

Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public ...