When the space shuttle Endeavour launched today it carried with it a set of experiments designed and constructed in the laboratory of Dennis Jacobs, a University of Notre Dame professor of chemistry and biochemistry who also serves as a vice president and associate provost.

The rotating service structure has been rolled away from space shuttle Endeavour in a major milestone leading up to launch. The liftoff of Endeavour on the STS-123 mission, carrying the Dextre robot built by the Canadian Space Agency remains on schedule for 2:28 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 11.

When the space shuttle Endeavour touched down at the Kennedy Space Center August 21, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston microbiology and immunology department chairman David Niesel was waiting by the runway, looking forward to a reunion with some of its passengers.

Space shuttle Endeavour on Sunday undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) a day early, as NASA kept a wary eye on Hurricane Dean.

The Mission Control Center in Houston informed the STS-118 and Expedition 15 crews late Thursday that Saturday’s spacewalk will not include repairs of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s heat shield.

The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Mission Control said Friday. The docking was delayed more than 10 minutes as the astronauts were waiting for the shuttle to emerge from the Earth's shadow for the docking unit to be illuminated by the sun.

The shuttle Endeavour may have been hit by three small pieces of insulation material from its external fuel tank on blast-off, without causing much damage, a NASA official has said.

The U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour has lifted off into space late Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida and is heading towards the International Space Station for a construction mission. As Cindy Saine reports from Washington, the spotlight is on teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan.