SPACE CENTER, Houston – NASA grounded future shuttle flights Wednesday because a big chunk of insulating foam flew off Discovery’s fuel tank during liftoff – as it did in Columbia’s doomed mission – ...

After the planned 30 November landing of the Space Shuttle Endeavour following its 17-day mission to the International Space Station, the orbiter fleet will have only 10 flights left, while the ISS ...

An extension of Space Shuttle missions beyond 2010 could see orbiters visiting the International Space Station without the assigned rescue flights that have been in place since the loss of the Shuttle ...

HOUSTON – Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the final module of the U.S. portion of the International Space Station on the STS-130 mission, now targeted to launch Feb. 7. NASA will preview this ...

Early in the space shuttle program, a friend told me her husband, an aerospace engineer who worked at Michoud, had sought her reaction to a launch. Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Pad 39A at ...