Space shuttle Atlantis is marking its own final plannedflight by flying its flag. Thousands of the red, white, and blue"ATLANTIS" flags, miniatures of the type flown over the launch padeach time ...

Three women are flying aboard space shuttle Discovery. With another female astronaut awaiting them at the International Space Station, that makes for a record-setting four women in space at the same ...

Space shuttle Endeavour - the baby of NASA's orbiter fleet - is poised to roll out to its Florida launch pad today to prepare for its last mission, a move that will come just hours after the shuttle ...

Seeing the space shuttle flying on top of its modified 747 carrier is rare. This image of Endeavour riding it over the Mojave a few days ago, however, is absolutely awesome. Updated with 1600px-wide ...

I’ve been a space enthusiast for as long as I can remember. I was born in the same year as Apollo 11. I made my family interrupt a holiday in France so I could listen to the launch of the first Space ...

Growing up in the USA in the 1960s I was captivated by the space programme as we raced the Soviet Union to the Moon. Most of my generation can tell you where they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...