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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ” Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven rocketed into orbit Sunday evening, setting off on a space station construction mission cut short by launch delays that ...

On a hot summer afternoon, a crew of astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center sporting their blue NASA flight suits-- ready to fly to the International Space Station this coming week. As the NASA ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA unanimously approved a Monday morning launch attempt for the space shuttle Endeavour, after reviewing all the repairs for an electrical problem that grounded the ...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak witnessed the last shuttle he will ever watch launch into space -- but it's hardly his first. "I've been to three of these," he said. It was, however, his new wife's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Clouds prevented space shuttle Endeavour from blasting off Sunday on the last planned nighttime shuttle launch, delaying its trip with a final few building blocks for the ...

NASA’s next-to-last space shuttle flight is set to begin late next week. Spaceflight managers gathered Tuesday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and set April 29 as the launch date for Endeavour’s ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In uneasy reminders of the Columbia accident, a thermal tile apparently got chipped and other debris whirled around Discovery as it rumbled toward space Tuesday, but it wasn't ...

Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off on July 8 for the final flight of the shuttle program, STS-135, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Atlantis will carry a crew of four and the ...

NASA fueled space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Friday on the final flight of the 30-year program, even though stormy weather threatened to delay the launch. If you purchase a product or register for ...