The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour has been confirmed for Thursday, May 30, at the preferred launch time of 7:44:26 p.m. EDT (23:44:26 GMT). All remaining countdown activities continue on schedule.

NASA will begin the countdown for launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-109 Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. EST at the T-43 hour mark. This mission marks the fourth Shuttle servicing mission to the ...

8:15:30 p.m. EST. The planar launch window on Friday extends from 8:10:30 – 8:20:30 p.m. EST with the preferred launch time reflecting a flight day three rendezvous and docking with the International ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis. [Photo: NASA] Many are calling it “the end of an era”. The Space Shuttle Program is about to close its doors as NASA and the space industry goes in other directions. As the ...

1. The previous attempt was a "botched launch". A sensor problem was detected in one of a quad-redundant sensor which wouldn't have been used in the flight anyway.<BR><BR>2. The hydrogen fuel low ...

At 8:56 a.m. EDT on May 16, 2011, space shuttle Endeavour and its six-member crew lifted off Launch Pad 39A on a mission to the International Space Station. Under a blue sky, space shuttle Endeavour ...

Just a few days from the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11, the mission that landed the first Americans on the Moon, the countdown for Space Shuttle mission STS-93 started at the Kennedy Space Center ...

The gap in US domestic crew launch capability is coming to an end as soon as next month, concluding a convoluted and painful path that ultimately began when Columbia was lost during STS-107. The last ...

NASA's final space shuttle crew took part in a press conference on June 22, 2011 while standing behind their spacecraft, Atlantis, and Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A. From left to right: ...