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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

6) See the Space Shuttle Atlantis ® Up Close In 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis completed its 33rd and final mission since 1985, the last of space shuttle era. The legendary orbiter ...

Man: Booster ignition and liftoff of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Narrator: Between 1994 and 2007, he flew five missions on the Space Shuttle... Man: I'm getting it, Jim, don't worry. Narrator ...

The shuttle program’s 30-year-run ended in 2011 when Atlantis landed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. There was no clear ...

Lee, also known as "Space Shuttle Ethel," turned 99 years old ... the Discovery, the Atlantis, the Endeavor, and the Enterprise," said Hahn.. And now Ethel is being honored.