Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in ...

2007 – Space Shuttle Discovery docks with the ISS. In the days while docked with the ISS, the Discovery crew delivers and connects Harmony to the ISS, a living and working compartment that will ...

When, in 2002, archaeologists Mary Ann Levine and James Delle’s crew of student excavators broke ... in and out of the Stevens house. Able to shuttle easily between the divided worlds of black ...

China is making final preparations for the launch of a three-person replacement crew for its orbiting space station that will ...

STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after reaching orbit (April 25), the STS-31 crew deployed Hubble, and then spent most of the duration ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

CHANTILLY, Va. — The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax ...