"Mission complete, Houston. After serving the world for over 30 years, the space shuttle has earned its place in history. It's come to a final stop." With those words, astronaut Christopher Ferguson ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico has long played a leading role in the United States’ exploration of space, and in 1982, the state was put in the history books as the Space Shuttle Columbia ...

So this is really, truly, definitely it. When the shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop at the Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 a.m. on July 21, the 30-year space-shuttle program at last came to an official ...

Space Shuttle Endeavour has landed at its final destination at the California Science Center. The shuttle, previously part of a horizontal display at the Science Center in Exposition Park, was hoisted ...

Former space shuttle astronaut John Herrington is heading a group trying to land a retired NASA space shuttle for the Tulsa Air and Space Museum. A native of Wetumka and a member of a Space Shuttle ...

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – As a journalist you become used to, comfortable even, with covering events from the periphery, from the outside. On a recent training flight, that comfortable veneer disappeared ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — With the space shuttle Discovery safely back on the ground, the astronauts who repaired it in outer space and rode it 219 times around the Earth returned to Houston ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 21 (Reuters) - The space shuttle Atlantis returned from NASA's final shuttle mission on Thursday, ending a 30-year era that opened the space frontier, exposed its dangers ...

Commander Steve Lindsey and his crew onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery will complete their mission, STS-121, with a landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., set for 9:07 a.m. EDT on Monday, ...

Dawn this morning, the Northrop strip of the range was quiet and peaceful as photographers and NASA technicians waited for the mid morning landing. But within an hour, the strip was *** beehive of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The space shuttle Discovery crew is scheduled to complete a 15-day mission to the International Space Station with a landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Wednesday, ...