Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final four shuttle astronauts returned to Kennedy Space Center this past weekend and addressed a crowd underneath their ride, ...

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 ...

Narrator: Even after NASA’s Space Shuttle Program comes to an end, the agency will have the unique opportunity to share its unparalleled tale of flying the world’s first reusable spacecraft . . . and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission. ['On This Day in ...

If it were up to the crew of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, they would have kept flying. Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A on ...

STS-135, Space Shuttle Atlantis, has returned safely to Earth. So concludes the one hundred and thirty-fifth Space Shuttle mission, the last ever of the program. Even though the wheels of the shuttle ...

The space shuttle era was a time of many firsts for space exploration. Most prominently, it marked the regular usage of the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into low Earth orbit. In its ...

The final four shuttle astronauts returned to Kennedy Space Center this past weekend and addressed a crowd underneath their ride, Space Shuttle Atlantis, reflecting on that last flight of the space ...