CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The four astronauts who will fly on the last-ever space shuttle mission landed at NASA's Florida spaceport Monday evening (June 20) to participate in a dress rehearsal for their ...

CAPE CANAVERAL - The Atlantis astronauts capped a practice countdown Thursday with a drill theynever want to go through for real: A launch tower escape. With thesix crewmates strapped into Atlantis at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - I have watched as space shuttles nosedive toward the runway more than 100 times, knowing that there are no engines available to carry them back into the sky if ...

The astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday put on their spacesuits, scrambled into their ship and buckled in for launch. But the crew will have to wait another few weeks for actual liftoff ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Journalists are invited to cover the STS-131 space shuttle crew’s practice countdown and related training March 2-5 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Reporters also may ...

The Cell Shuttle platform will manufacture cell therapies for its first clinical trials by the end of the year. Cellares, a self-titled integrated development and manufacturing organization (IDMO), ...

Launch practice on tap Over the next three days, the Atlantis crew will take part in a number of training activities leading up to their suiting up and climbing aboard the shuttle on Thursday (June 23 ...