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NASA engineers are replacing fuel line seals on the space shuttle Discovery to staunch a small leak in time for the spacecraft's final blastoff on Nov. 1.

Space shuttle Atlantis zoomed toward its final touchdown Wednesday to cap a 25-year flying career, bringing back six astronauts who boosted ...

The space shuttle Atlantis made its last scheduled departure from the International Space Station on Sunday.

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.

Cloudy weather in Florida will keep space shuttle Discovery in orbit an extra day.

President Barack Obama predicted Thursday his new space exploration plans would lead American astronauts to Mars and back in his lifetime, a bold forecast relying on rockets and propulsion still to be imagined and built.

Space shuttle Discovery with seven astronauts aboard blasted off on Monday on one of NASA's final servicing missions to the International Space Station.

An ex-Boeing Co (BA.N) engineer, found guilty last year of passing space shuttle secrets to China in America's first conviction under a 1996 espionage law, was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison.

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.