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NASA's youngest shuttle departed Kennedy Space Center at sunrise on the first leg of its flight to California. It's bolted to the top of a jumbo jet.

The one-ton, car-sized Curiosity rocketed from Kennedy Space Center Saturday. The vehicle is on a two-year mission to determine whether life could have existed on Mars.

Space shuttle commander Mark Kelly said Thursday he's still awaiting doctors' blessing to bring his wounded congresswoman wife to his launch in just under three weeks.

NASA's Inspector General's Office says an investigation is under way after a white powdery substance found at the Kennedy Space Center tested positive for cocaine.

The last chapter in the story of the space shuttle Discovery likely closes Wednesday with its scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Space shuttle Atlantis thundered off its launchpad at Kennedy Space Center into cloudless skies Friday afternoon and headed to the International Space Station on the 32nd and final planned mission of its 25-year career.

Space shuttle Discovery's crew of seven astronauts ended their 15-day, 6 million-mile journey Tuesday with a picture-perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA began fueling the space shuttle Endeavour for a Monday morning launch amid concerns that low clouds over Florida's Kennedy Space Center could delay lift-off a second time.

A small plastic bag containing cocaine has been discovered at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, inside a restricted work area where the shuttle Discovery is being prepared for launch in March, the space agency reported Thursday.

Weather conditions forced NASA to wave off a landing attempt for space shuttle Atlantis scheduled for 9:16 a.m. ET Saturday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the space agency said.