Eileen Collins reflects on her time as the first female not only to pilot but also command a spacecraft. Here's her ...

Astronauts have begun training for the STS-108/Utilization Flight-1 mission to rotate International Space Station crews and to deliver experiments and scientific racks for the station’s U.S.

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, left, and Sesame Street's Elmo speak at the STS-135 Tweetup on July 7, 2011 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Elmo asked the astronauts questions about ...

For a quarter of a century, humans have continuously occupied the International Space Station. Here's a look at how far we've ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for the final scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour. Lift ...

As the future of NASA’s budget finds itself under scrutiny again this week, managers have told their workforce that STS-135 will fly “regardless” of what happens with the funding situation via the ...

On Oct. 7, 2002, the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-112. This mission brought the ...

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NASA announced Monday June 2, 2008, that the launch pad from which the space shuttle Discovery and its STS-124 crew lifted off on Saturday, May 31, 2008, at about 5 p.m., suffered serious damage.