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MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer Spectators watch and take photos of space shuttle Discovery as it lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday. Discovery, the world's most traveled spaceship, thundered into orbit for the final time Thursday, heading toward the International Space Station on a journey that marks the beginning of the end of the shuttle era. AP Photo/Terry Renna Throngs view space shuttle Discovery's last launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery, the world's most traveled s...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour is finally on its way. Endeavour blasted off on the next-to-last shuttle flight Monday morning under the command of Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The wounded congresswoman watched the launch in private from Kennedy Space Center. As many as 45,000 guests jammed NASA's launch site. The crowd outside the gates was estimated to be in the tens of thousands, if not more. It was the second launch attempt. Late last month, an electrical problem halted the c...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander's wounded wife, U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands. AP Photo/Chris O'Meara Space shuttle Endeavour clears the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday. With Giffords' husband, commander Mark Kelly, at the helm, Endeavour and its experienced crew of five Americans and an Italian a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis and four astronauts thundered into orbit Friday on NASA's last space shuttle voyage, writing the final chapter in a 30-year story of dazzling triumphs, shattering tragedy and, ultimately, unfulfilled expectations. After days of gloomy forecasts full of rain and heavy cloud cover, the spaceship lifted off at 11:29 a.m. — just 2½ minutes late — and embarked on the 135th shuttle mission. The crowd of spectators was estimated at nearly 1 million. AP Photo/Terry Renna The space shuttle Atlant... Full story
AP Photo/NASA Inside the U.S. lab Destiny, 12 astronauts and cosmonauts take a break from a very busy week aboard the International Space Station to pose for a joint STS-133/Expedition 26 group portrait. The STS-133 crew members, all attired in red shirts, from left, are NASA astronauts Nicole Stott, Alvin Drew, Eric Boe, Steve Lindsay, Michael Barratt and Steve Bowen. The dark blue-attired Expedition 26 crew members, from left, are European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, along with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's 30-year shuttle program inched closer to the end Wednesday, wrapping up its next-to-last mission and moving Atlantis to the launch pad for next month's final flight. Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth after more than two weeks in space, gliding down the runway one last time during a middle-of-the-night landing. A few miles away, Atlantis reached the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center for the grand finale in five weeks. Endeavour commander Mark Kelly — whose wife, wounded Rep. Gab...
Space shuttle Atlantis returned from its final voyage today, closing out a quarter-century flying career and safely bringing back six astronauts from a successful space station mission. "Twenty-five years, 32 flights and more than 120 million miles traveled. The legacy of Atlantis now in the history books," Mission Control's commentator announced at touchdown. About 1,200 guests — the maximum number allowed — lined the Kennedy Space Center runway for the conclusion to NASA's third-to-last shuttle flight. Employees wore whi...
Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit this morning on what's likely the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program, hauling a new room and observat ion deck for the International Space Station. The space shuttle took flight before dawn, igniting the sky with a brilliant flash seen for miles around. The weather finally cooperated: Thick, low clouds that had delayed a first launch attempt Sunday returned but then cleared away just in time. "Looks like the weather came together tonight," launch director Mike... Full story
