Space Shuttle Atlantis. [Photo: NASA] Many are calling it “the end of an era”. The Space Shuttle Program is about to close its doors as NASA and the space industry goes in other directions. As the ...

HOUSTON — If anything should happen to the Space Shuttle Atlantis once it reaches the international space station, or if the orbiter is deemed unsafe to return to Earth, NASA has developed an ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The four astronauts for the final space shuttle mission, STS-135, will answer reporters’ questions at 8:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, May 31, as shuttle Atlantis is moved to its ...

The last launch of the space shuttle program happened nine years ago on July 8, 2011 when Space Shuttle Atlantis took off on STS-135 sending four people into space. One of them happens to be there ...

NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus flies through the Rafaello module, filled to the brim with supplies, during the last space shuttle mission (STS-135) to the International Space Station. Space shuttle ...

MISSION: STS-135 International Space Station Utilization/Logistics Flight 7 (ULF 7), the 135th and final launch of the space shuttle program and the 37th to the ISS. ORBITER: Atlantis (OV-104), making ...

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning, the four Atlantis astronauts put on their bright orange launch-and-entry suits and are traveling to Launch Pad 39A aboard the Astrovan, just as ...

NASA's space shuttles have been icons of American spaceflight for over 30 years, but the storied space planes are retiring for good this year after one final mission this month. The shuttle Atlantis ...

HOUSTON — NASA’s four STS-135 astronauts marched through their last suited ascent simulations on June 16, lifting off four times in an integrated training session with their Johnson Space Center ...