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 ...

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 ...

A survey of space shuttle Atlantis' outer body has revealed that four tiles on the right side have "some dings" in them, the flight director said Tuesday. "As we were going through the surveys we did ...

The three-day countdown for the shuttle Atlantis began yesterday as NASA continues its long-delayed efforts to launch the spacecraft. After three years of waiting in the aftermath of the shuttle ...

NASA wants to make sure that it is not a vital piece of the spacecraft. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA postponed the return of Atlantis for at least a day and examined the space shuttle for damage that ...

On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first "glass cockpit." This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101. NASA ...

An unidentified, apparently rectangular object orbiting below and at the same speed as the space shuttle Atlantis may have been shaken loose from the spacecraft, leading NASA officials to scramble for ...