The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for passive occupants of a spacecraft was “Spam in a can.” To the astronauts who cut ...

This chair was used by John Kay, the inventor of the flying shuttle. He was born at Rothwell's of the Park, Walmersley, Bury in 1704. In 1733 Kay invented the wheel shuttle (Flying Shuttle ...

The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

Sweet Ether, Lovin' Whiskey, Dirty Passion, Easter Before Christmas, Stonestreet, Maiden uniteD. All the staff at The Flying Shuttle are fully trained, well mannered, and are here to help ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...