Space shuttle Atlantis landed Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base after rainy weather in Florida precluded a landing at Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle touched down at 8:39 a.m. PT at Edwards, about ...

Photo: The drag chute is deployed as the space shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing STS-135, the final mission of the NASA shuttle program, on Thursday, July 21, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth early Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe ...

The crew of seven aboard the space shuttle Atlantis spent an extra day inorbit after poor weather conditions prevented them from returning home onFriday. Showers and thunderstorms as well as low ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely Friday, ending a two-week mission to deliver an addition to the international space station and bring a crew ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Rainstorms and clouds over Florida forced the space shuttle Atlantis to cancel its attempted homecoming for a second day on Saturday, and NASA said it would try to ...

The space shuttle Atlantis made what's likely to be its last landing today at Cape Canaveral. Robert Block, space editor for the Orlando Sentinel , called it "a beautiful, bittersweet homecoming," ...

The space shuttle passed into history Thursday, the words "wheels stop" crackling over the cockpit radio for the last time. In an almost anticlimactic end to the 30-year-old program, Atlantis and its ...