'Sooner State' Shuttle: Stafford Museum to Display NASA Simulator in Oklahoma

A space shuttle cockpit that was used to train all of the crews that launched on board the winged orbiters has landed in Oklahoma, where it will be displayed at a museum named for a veteran NASA astronaut. The Stafford Air & Space Museum, located in Weatherford, Oklahoma (known as the Sooner State), announced Wednesday (Aug. 3) its acquisition of the fixed-based simulator (FBS), a high-fidelity replica of the shuttle's flight deck and partial middeck, which was in use for three decades at NA