After a long, 16-day Internation Space Station (ISS) construction mission, space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth on Friday. The mission had been long delayed by weather and operational difficulties.
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After five unsuccessful tries, Shuttle Endeavour launched on Wednesday on what will be a 16 day trip to the ISS. Endeavour commander Mark Polansky leads a crew of seven that includes Canadian Julie Payette and NASA astronauts Doug Hurley, David Wolf, Chris Cassidy, Thomas Marshburn and Tim Kopra. Kopra will replace Koichi Wakata of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency as an Expedition 20 flight engineer.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Shuttle Endeavor is on the launch pad, ready to make yet another launch attempt late Wednesday.
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NASA says the current weather conditions violate the rules for Shuttle Launch. The new schedule for NASA's shuttle launch is set for Monday.
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At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the countdown to liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour resumed on time at 3:18 p.m. EDT at T-3 hours. Prelaunch preparations continue on schedule.
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NASA's Moon mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is now in lunar orbit. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite has swung by the moon and is sending back images.
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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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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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You may remember Lisa Nowak, the former NASA astronaut who reportedly drove cross-country from is accused of driving from Houston to Orlando to kidnap her romantic rival, Colleen Shipman, on Feb. 7, 2007. Her initial filing was seeking insanity as her defense, but on Thursday, that filing was withdrawn.
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The last hurrah for Hubble is here; the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew launched Monday on a repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. This is NASA's fifth and last repair mission to the Hubble.
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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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While Stephen Colbert easily won NASA's online voting contest to name the new node for the International Space Station, he didn't quite get everything he wanted last night on the Colbert Report. Astronaut Sunita Williams came on his show to announce the winner, and it was ...
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