Astronauts successfully installed a new $164 million air lock on the international space station. Sunday's Extravehicular Activity (EVA), or space walk, started an hour late after Mike Gernhardt and ...

NASA The giant gold and silver satellite glittered against the black sky as space shuttle Atlantis closed in on it from below. Commander Hoot Gibson and pilot Guy Gardner flew the approach ...

fingers curled around the hand controller for the shuttle’s maneuvering thrusters. Taco was Atlantis’ commander, piloting the orbiter through this crucial docking. This was his third space ...

The Atlantis shuttle lifted off at 1129 local Florida time (1629 BST) on a mission to haul critical supplies to the International Space Station The flight is the 135th and final space shuttle ...

(February 5) (CNN) --The space shuttle Atlantis was to roll out to the launch pad this week for a trip to the international space station. Instead, NASA must decide when the grounded fleet should ...

Atlantis will now be put on display at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle spent a total of 307 days in space, orbited Earth 4,848 times and travelled an amazing 125,935,769 miles.

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Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

The shuttle program’s 30-year-run ended in 2011 when Atlantis landed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. There was no clear vision of what would come next, and by 2013, American astronauts were ...

Atlantis, and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by ...