Visitors to the Shuttle Atlantis exhibition can try their hand at simulators modeling space shuttle dockings, robotic arm operations, and landings. The simulators were built to closely resemble the ...

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex today began the two-day process of unwrapping the Atlantis orbiter from the protective shrink wrap that has encased the priceless artifact during ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Space shuttle Atlantis has landed back on Earth, bringing to a close America's 30-year orbiter programme. The vehicle ...

A chapter in United States history closed this morning as the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time. The return flight was successful, with excellent weather easing the crew's return ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Accompanied by a fleet of astronauts spanning NASA’s entire existence, Atlantis made a slow, solemn journey to retirement Friday, the last space shuttle to orbit the world ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis is poised to lift off on NASA's final trip to the Hubble Space Telescope. The launch is scheduled for this afternoon. Near-perfect weather is expected.

HOUSTON — The space shuttle Atlantis, with a preliminary clean bill of health, is about to make a 17-1/2-ton delivery. Astronauts Monday morning will use the shuttle's robotic arm to remove a giant ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With a 4-inch gap in the space shuttle Atlantis' heat-protecting blanket not appearing to be a problem Saturday, the crew readied themselves for what NASA called a delicate ...

HOUSTON — Atlantis docked with the international space station yesterday, as engineers continued to review photographs of a section of peeled-back thermal blanket on the space shuttle. Atlantis ...

HOUSTON — An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis. Undergraduate and graduate students at Texas Southern ...

Walking below the shuttle Atlantis on display, the orbiter's protective heat shield tiles are visible, dinged and scratched from traveling through Earth's atmosphere. A slide in the Space Shuttle ...