Discovery is slated to blast off from a seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:21 a.m. ET on Easter Monday. It is one of NASA's final four shuttle missions before the fleet ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has completed a two-day review of space shuttle Discovery’s readiness for flight and selected Aug. 25 as the official launch date for the STS-128 mission to … ...

The space shuttle Discovery is settled on its Launch Pad 39B for launch of mission STS-116. Work crews hauled the orbiter and its launch stack to Pad 39B on Nov. 9, 2006 for a Dec. 7 launch.

Discovery was NASA's third space shuttle. Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Feb. 24, 2011. Joe Raedle/Getty Images &#151 ...

NASA managers postponed Friday’s 12:22 a.m. EDT launch of space shuttle Discovery to allow engineers more time to develop plans for resolving an issue with a valve in the shuttle’s main… ...

NASA's space shuttle Discovery launched successfully Tuesday -- the first shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster. After a background discussion, an expert discusses the changes NASA made ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA today provided a unanimous "go" for Thursday's planned launch of space shuttle Discovery. It will be the final flight for Discovery, the world's most traveled rocketship.

NASA coverage of Space Shuttle Discovery "return to flight" Mission launch was shown. Commander Eileen Collins and her crew embarked on the first U.S. space flight since the loss of the Shuttle ...

— -- Space Shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts blasted off a minute before midnight on a mission to deliver supplies and a fresh crewmember to the International Space Station. NASA had ...

The final mission for Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Fla., after several months of delays. Hari Sreenivasan talks with science correspondent Miles O'Brien about ...

After discussing the issue, NASA announced today that the shuttle will fly no earlier than November 30 at 4:05 a.m. ET, the start of the last launch window for the year.

NASA willtry to launch the space shuttle Discovery next week after settling outlyingconcerns with the foam insulation covering the spacecraft?s external fuel tank. Discovery isnow slated to blast ...