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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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.

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

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 ...