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Atlantis Landing In California, Finally Home

Space shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards AFB at 11:39 EDT, completing a 13-day journey of approximately 5.3 million miles in space.

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NASA Postpones Shuttle Landing Schedule For Sunday

NASA says Atlantis shuttle landing is postponed for tomorrow as the crew is waiting for a better weather. Earlier NASA delayed shuttle landing and had the schedule set for this Saturday, but today NASA changed shuttle landing schedule for Sunday due to bad weather at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Shuttle Atlantis Landing Postponed Until Saturday

Mission controllers have waved off space shuttle Atlantis landing today due to bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shuttle landing is postponed until Saturday.

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Shuttle Atlantis Launch Schedule: 5-11-2009

Shuttle launch schedule of 2009 has reached to a new corner point today as Atlantis is scheduled for launch today at 2PM EST. Atlantis is set to launch at 2:01 p.m. EDT on a mission to upgrade the world's most famous telescope.

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Atlantis takes Columbus to ISS

Atlantis finally blasted off Thursday afternoon carrying Europe’s Clumbus lab to the International Space Station. The cost of the laboratory is evaluated at $2 billion. The launch finally became possible after two months of technical delays.

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Jumbo jet carries Shuttle Atlantis to Florida

Clear weather allowed a jumbo jet carrying the space shuttle Atlantis to take off Monday for Kentucky on its way back to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said.

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Space Shuttle Returns Landing At Edwards Air Force Base

Space shuttle Atlantis descended to a smooth landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station.

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NASA Postpones Shuttle Landing Until Friday

Poor weather at the landing site in Florida forced U.S. mission controllers to scrub Thursday's scheduled landing of the space shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle's seven astronauts will now attempt to touch down Friday.

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Shuttle Landing Delayed, Next Attempt Friday

Bad Weather Pushes STS-117 Shuttle Landing to Friday.

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Weather Threatens Planned Return of US Space Shuttle

The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis is making final preparations for Thursday's scheduled return to Earth. The shuttle will have two opportunities to land at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the southern U.S. state of Florida. But a possibility of thunderstorms and low clouds over the landing site could postpone the shuttle's return until Friday.

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Atlantis shuttle successfully undocks from ISS

The Atlantis shuttle completed its 10-day stay at the International Space Station and undocked at 2:42 p.m. GMT Tuesday, a NASA spokesperson said.

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