CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: On the eve of the next-to-last space shuttle launch, thousands of people streamed to the region for a chance to watch Friday's fiery spectacle. Adding to the fever-pitch excitement: The first-ever visit by an entire (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA took a giant leap away from the spaceflight business Wednesday as a private company launched a spacecraft into orbit and for the first time guided it safely back to Earth, a feat previously achieved only by large national (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL: Baffled by fuel tank cracks, NASA announced another prolonged launch delay for space shuttle Discovery on Wednesday and raised the prospect of a Christmastime flight.
Shuttle managers refused to set a new launch date for (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space is about to get its first humanoid from planet Earth. Robonaut 2 — affectionately known as R2 — is hitching a one-way ride to the International Space Station this week aboard the final flight of space shuttle (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL: There's still the matter of money. But it looks increasingly likely that NASA will get an extra space shuttle flight.
President Barack Obama signed a NASA spending bill into law Monday, following last week's approval by Congress. (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla: How would you look after 120 million miles?
Atlantis might appear a little scuffed up to outsiders as it heads into retirement after a quarter-century of spaceflight.
But to the trained eyes of NASA engineers, the ship is (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: The Atlantis astronauts finally get a chance to relax in orbit, following two grueling spacewalks.
Only one spacewalk remains for the shuttle crew, on Friday. The astronauts will finish installing batteries at the (...)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla: Sir Isaac Newton's famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind.
Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple fell nearly 350 years ago and inspired Newton to (...)