Walking below the shuttle Atlantis on display, the orbiter's protective heat shield tiles are visible, dinged and scratched from traveling through Earth's atmosphere. A slide in the Space Shuttle ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Atlantis blasted off Monday for the Hubble Space Telescope on the most delicate and dangerous repair job ever in orbit -- a mission so risky that for the first time a second ...
The space shuttle Atlantis on Friday successfully launched for the last time and is now zooming toward the International Space Station for a 12-day mission that will bring NASA's 30-year shuttle ...
A chapter in United States history closed this morning as the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time. The return flight was successful, with excellent weather easing the crew's return ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle passed into history Thursday, the words "wheels stop" crackling over the cockpit radio for the last time. In an almost anticlimactic end to the 30-year-old ...
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Could Atlantis have saved Columbia, inside NASA’s 2003 rescue plan and the foam strike that doomed STS-107
A foam strike 82 seconds after launch set Columbia on a fatal course, but a 2003 investigation explored a last-minute ...
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