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Latest News for NASA's Final Shuttle Mission STS-135
See the latest updates on NASA's last shuttle mission in history, the STS-135 flight of Atlantis.
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The unique NASA photo is a rare glimpse of the thousands who help launch space shuttle missions.
All three of NASA's space shuttles are headed to museums, and numerous institutions are vying for the right to display them.
If NASA continues operating at 2010 funding levels, the agency will have enough money to fly its third and final space shuttle mission this year.
An extra space shuttle launch will lift off this summer, if NASA can find the money.
NASA has invited Santa Claus to drop by Kennedy Space Center this Christmas Eve to check out the agency's three space shuttles as they're prepared for their final missions.
Amongst its myriad other tourist attractions and landmarks, the Big Apple could become home to one of NASA's retiring space shuttles following the retirement of the fleet in 2011, according to news reports.
A retrospective look at space shuttle Discovery as it prepares for one final flight: STS-133.
A retrospective look at space shuttle Discovery as it prepares for one final flight: STS-133.
As NASA's space shuttle program draws to a close, production of the shuttle's external fuel tanks has ceased. Lockheed Martin had built NASA fuel tanks since 1973.
NASA has announced the four astronauts who would fly the last-ever space shuttle mission next summer, should Congress approve the extra flight.
NASA may push back plans to launch its next shuttle mission until March 2006 to allow more time for engineers to study and solve an ongoing foam shedding problem with orbiter external tanks.
Seattle's Museum of Flight has broken ground on a new space exhibit that will highlight human spaceflight and will be large enough to fit one of NASA's retiring space shuttles – even though the museum hasn’t officially secured one yet.
Space station stronauts will physically unplug a pair of power cables to the outpost's Russian segment.
After 31 previous flights, STS-132 was Atlantis' last scheduled mission. But this Orbiter's not on the way to some museum just yet. There may be a space-flight left in this old bird.
The last set of space shuttle rocket segments arrived in Florida Thursday after one final train ride from their Utah-based factory.
The six astronauts who flew back to Earth aboard shuttle Atlantis Wednesday said their trip was a blast, and they wish they could ride a space shuttle again.
The Wednesday landing of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis may have capped a successful mission that is slated to be the spaceship's last, but the orbiter's immediate future is not yet set in stone.
Space shuttle Atlantis has flown its last planned mission after 25 years of service and 120 million miles in orbit. But it is leaving an impressive legacy behind in space.
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