After more than a month's delay, space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts thundered into orbit Wednesday on a flight to the International Space Station, hauling up a veranda for Japan's enormous lab and looking to set a crowd record. ...more

July 16, 2009

It's official: NASA has finally settled on a Wednesday night launch for space shuttle Discovery. ...more

March 6, 2009

Space shuttle Endeavour has to wait another day to make its cross-country return trip to Florida. ...more

December 8, 2008

Dangerously high wind and a stormy sky prevented space shuttle Endeavour from returning to its home base in Florida on Sunday, and NASA ordered the astronauts to take a detour and land in sunny California. ...more

November 30, 2008

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion-dollar science lab. ...more

June 14, 2008

NASA has set May 31 for the next space shuttle launch and said that Russia's investigation into last month's rocky landing of its own spacecraft shouldn't interfere. ...more

May 20, 2008

The space shuttle Atlantis' mission to the International Space Station likely will be pushed back a few more days or weeks as engineers study problems with electrical connectors in the spaceship's external fuel tank, a top NASA manager said Thursday. ...more

December 28, 2007