Post-launch inspections mandated on all missions after STS-107 revealed no significant damage, allowing Hurley to pilot Endeavour to a safe landing. Hurley then piloted Space Shuttle Atlantis in ...

This marked the only shuttle landing at White Sands. First American woman in space: STS-7 (Challenger) The launch of Challenger ... when space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space ...

The Atlantis shuttle lifted off at 1129 local Florida time (1629 BST) on a mission to haul critical supplies to the International Space Station The flight is the 135th and final space shuttle ...

Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis ... ready to launch at short notice on an ambitious rescue mission. This rescue mission was called STS-400. When the Space Shuttle fleet returned ...

On this date, Jan. 20, 1997, space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the Russian Mir space station. Atlantis, on its fifth trip to Mir, made two flights around the station after undocking and ...

It is the same one used by the last NASA astronauts to launch from American soil, the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew in July 2011. Indeed, Launch Complex 39 A and B have been the site of every U.S ...

After nearly 30 years and 134 liftoffs NASA launched its final shuttle into orbit. Space shuttle Atlantis will carry out the program's last mission. While the future of NASA's budget still remains ...

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 ...