
Cape Canaveral: The space shuttle Atlantis returned from NASA's final shuttle mission on Thursday, ending a 30-year era that opened the space frontier, exposed its dangers and established a toehold for future endeavors beyond Earth. NASA workers lined the runway at the Kennedy Space Center before dawn to greet Atlantis and its crew upon their return from a successful 13-day cargo run to the International Space Station and to celebrate...

11:58 PM, Jul 21, 2011

Cape Canaveral: The shuttle Atlantis astronauts fired their spaceship's braking rockets to leave orbit on Thursday, aiming to conclude the final US space shuttle mission with a predawn landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle was targeted to land at its home base at 0957 GMT. Atlantis' return from the 135th shuttle mission caps a 30-year program that made spaceflight appear routine, despite two fatal accidents that...

02:38 PM, Jul 21, 2011

Cape Canaveral: Countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center began ticking on Tuesday toward the final flight in the 30-year-old US space shuttle program, a cargo run to the International Space Station. Liftoff of shuttle Atlantis carrying astronauts is set for 11:26 am EDT (1526 GMT) on Friday, though meteorologists are concerned about the weather. An approaching front is expected to cloud central Florida's skies beginning on Thursday, stirring up...

01:31 AM, Jul 06, 2011

Cape Canaveral: The space shuttle Endeavour landed smoothly at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, completing the second-to-last mission of the US space shuttle program. Endeavour, which delivered a pioneering physics experiment to the International Space Station, touched down on the runway at 2:35 am EDT (0635 GMT). It is the second of US space agency NASA's three spaceships being retired this year. Sister ship Atlantis is scheduled...

01:23 PM, Jun 01, 2011

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Discovery to deliver 17,000 pounds of space station supplies, equipment. ...

05:19 PM, Aug 24, 2009

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04:24 PM, May 28, 2007

After two frustrating weeks of delays, space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts blasted off on Saturday. ...

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