NASA The giant gold and silver satellite glittered against the black sky as space shuttle Atlantis closed in on it from below. Commander Hoot Gibson and pilot Guy Gardner flew the approach ...

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 ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

(February 5) (CNN) --The space shuttle Atlantis was to roll out to the launch pad this week for a trip to the international space station. Instead, NASA must decide when the grounded fleet should ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The shuttle program’s 30-year-run ended in 2011 when Atlantis landed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. There was no clear vision of what would come next, and by 2013, American astronauts were ...

The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have ...

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is rolling out a new, limited-time, daylong VIP tour. The Brevard County attraction’s KSC Elite VIP Tour Package will be available between Dec. 19 and Jan. 5. The ...