Astronauts aboard the space-shuttle Atlantis landed just before 6am EST on Thursday, marking not only the end of the flight but end of NASA's 30-year shuttle program. The space shuttle changed the way ...

Twenty years ago today, Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on STS-115, the first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's space shuttle Atlantis has again reached its "final stop," and this time, it's for good. On Friday (Nov 2.), the space agency's last shuttle to fly in space became the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is getting hit up for extra launch passes, and mission stickers and pins are flying off the shelf. Another Twittering crowd is descending on the space center. Even science ...

Just before 6am Eastern Time on Thursday, the space shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the end of NASA's 30-year shuttle program. It was a bittersweet morning as ...

If everything goes smoothly, this morning at around 11 o’clock, four brave souls strapped to 800,000 gallons of liquid oxygen, hydrogen and hydrazine will ride a controlled explosion into near-earth ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Atlantis and four astronauts returned from the International Space Station in triumph Thursday, bringing an end to NASA's 30-year shuttle journey with one last, rousing ...

The Space Shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew are on their way to the International Space Station after lifting-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center September 9. Atlantis' flight, STS-115, will ...

NEW YORK — The Space Shuttle Atlantis is back at the launch pad after more than two months of extensive fuel tank repairs as NASA primes the spacecraft for a June 8 launch towards the international ...