Detouring because of stormy weather, the space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a detoured to California, blasting Southern California with its customary sonic boom before landing safely in at Edwards Air Force Base.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The space shuttle Discovery, its crew of seven and a returning astronaut landed safely on Saturday after a construction mission that ended with the International Space Station finally having all its solar wings.

Space Shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station this week, bringing with it the final American-made components: a $300 million set of solar arrays.

Space shuttle Discovery took off at 7.43 PM EDT (2343 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after a day full of anticipation over the much delayed mission.

On Tuesday, NASA released another report on the Columbia space shuttle disaster. The report, "Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report," was graphic in its conclusions on the disaster, which occurred Feb. 1st, 2003 during re-entry.