HOUSTON — For the first time, NASA astronauts aboard an orbiting spacecraft were awakened by a live performance from Mission Control, as Todd Park Mohr and three other members of Big Head Todd and the ...

NASA selected astronaut Steve Bowen as a mission specialist on STS-133, the next space shuttle mission planned for launch on Feb. 24. Bowen replaces astronaut Tim Kopra, who was injured in a bicycle ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Hoffman of New York City took this long-exposure photo of the shuttle Discovery (right light line) and International Space Station as they flew over Flushing Meadows Park in ...

MISSION: STS-133, Fifth International Space Station Utilization Flight (ULF5), the 133rd launch of the shuttle program and the 35th to the ISS. ORBITER: Discovery (OV-103), making its 39th flight.

CAPE CANAVERAL — Yesterday NASA held an event at Kennedy Space Center to showcase some of the flight hardware that will travel to the International Space Station onboard Space Shuttle Discovery, ...

The shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a mobile launch platform carried by an Apollo-era crawler transporter, was hauled to the launch pad overnight Monday for work to ready the ship for blastoff Nov. 1 ...

NASA confirms dates of last 2 shuttle flights NASA announced on July 1, 2010, that it has confirmed the launch dates of STS-133 and STS-134. The space shuttle program is officially active through the ...

HOUSTON — NASA space shuttle program managers approved a Nov. 1 launch date for the 11-day STS-133 mission aboard the shuttle Discovery, following a Oct. 6 review of mission preparations. John Shannon ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Hoffman of New York City took this long-exposure photo of the shuttle Discovery (right light line) and International Space Station as they flew over Flushing Meadows Park in ...