Despite the closure of an emergency landing strip in Morocco due to security concerns, Thursday's launch of space shuttle Atlantis is still a go, NASA says. The landing strip was closed because there ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After 30 years of spaceflight, NASA's iconic space shuttles will fly no more. The space agency's storied shuttle program ended today (July 21) when the shuttle Atlantis soared ...

The space shuttle Atlantis made what's likely to be its last landing today at Cape Canaveral. Robert Block, space editor for the Orlando Sentinel , called it "a beautiful, bittersweet homecoming," ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After a high flying repair job to the Hubble Space Telescope, the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis was scheduled to come home Friday morning. The only problem was the weather.

The space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early on Sunday after astronauts fitted it with new solar panels designed to boost the station’s power-generating capacity. The ...

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Leland Melvin said that flying a space shuttle was significantly less nerve-wracking than being racially profiled by the ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...