KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The space shuttle Atlantis roared to life and raced into orbit Monday on a critical mission to deliver 15 tons of equipment and spare parts to the International Space ...

The space shuttle Atlantis takes its final planned spaceflight, from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station. It caps off a 25-year career of flying in space. May 23: This photo shows an ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off successfully into orbit for its final journey Friday at 2:20 p.m. EDT. The trip is a delivery to the International Space Station that will provide fresh batteries ...

On Friday, the Atlantis space shuttle is scheduled to blast off for its 32nd and last mission, but even after 25 years of spaceflight this middle child of NASA's current space plane fleet still has ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The May 26 landing of NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis may have capped a successful mission slated to be the ship’s last trek to space, but the orbiter’s immediate future is not ...

Space shuttle Atlantis closed in on the 120 million-mile mark as its final voyage neared an end and astronauts inspected their ship in advance of Wednesday's landing. The laborious survey was carried ...

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 cleared the space shuttle Atlantis to launch toward theInternational Space Station Monday on a delivery mission. Atlantis is set to lift off at 2:28 p.m. EST (1928 GMT) onNov. 16 at from Launch ...

NASA's final space shuttle to fly in space will be exhibited to the public in a facility that bears simply the retired orbiter's name, officials announced on Thursday. NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...

Carrying a Russian docking module and critical spare parts, the shuttle hooks up with the International Space Station on Sunday to wrap up a two-day orbital chase. Bill Harwood has been covering the U ...

This story was updated at 1:38 p.m. EST. The space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of six arrived atthe International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday to drop off some massive spareparts for the orbiting ...

The last launch of the space shuttle program happened 10 years ago on July 8, 2011 when Space Shuttle Atlantis took off on STS-135 sending four people into space. Ten years ago, Pilot Doug Hurley had ...