CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - The mock countdownhas begun for NASA's first astronaut crew to ride a space shuttle into orbitsince the Columbiadisaster. The sevenastronauts of NASA's STS-114 mission have begun ...

NASA's nextseven astronauts to fly aboard a space shuttle have a bit of orbital hot potatoin store for them when their spacecraft reaches the InternationalSpace Station (ISS) later this year. Using ...

On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first "Return to Flight" mission following the Columbia disaster that killed seven crewmembers a little over two years earlier. A few ...

All seven members of the STS-114 crew were busy at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Feb. 10 and 11, further familiarizing themselves with the spacecraft that will take them on the Space ...

Judy Simonds doesn’t look like a bona fide numbers guru. There’s no green eyeshade on her head, no adding machine clattering away on her desk. But as the financial data manager for the Space Shuttle ...

The shuttle Discovery's crew has lingering doubts about the on-orbit thermal protection system (TPS) repair techniques that NASA is developing in the wake of the Columbia accident, and would not be ...

There is no shortage of experience at the helm of NASA’s next space shuttle mission. With a total of four shuttle flights and 844 hours of space time between them, STS-114 commander Eileen Collins and ...

NASA and space shuttle external tank manufacturer Lockheed Martin successfully completed the Design Certification Review (DCR) for the tank that will be used for the shuttle's return to flight mission ...

Engineers investigating a debris shedding problem with NASA’s shuttle fuel tanks have found a series of hairline cracks in the same area where foam popped free during the July launch of the Discovery ...

Discovery launched into a clear Florida sky this morning, returning the Shuttle fleet to space and beginning a journey of exploration to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Discovery lifted off at 9:39 a.m.

Space Shuttle and International Space Station crewmembers installed the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and began unloading the pressurized cargo carrier Friday. They also carried out a ...

When she was just a child attending summer camp, Eileen Collins watched nearby sailplanes taking off into the sky and decided that she, too, would leave the ground one day. By age 16, she had begun ...