NASA officials say inspections of the shuttle Atlantis have not yet found any damage to the orbiter’s heat shields. Astronauts on Sunday used cameras and instruments attached to the shuttle’s ...

Technicians and engineers in NASA’s space shuttle program plan to test the engine cutoff sensor system onboard space shuttle Atlantis by pumping super-cold liquid hydrogen into the external fuel tank.

Fueling of space shuttle Atlantis’s external fuel tank with 535,000 gallons of super cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen was completed slightly ahead of schedule at 4:58 a.m. EDT. Tanking began on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Atlantis was removed from its seaside launch pad on Sunday for repairs after a freak hailstorm battered the spaceship's fuel tank last week. Sign up ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Atlantis got the go-ahead from NASA on Thursday for a June 8 launch to resume construction of the International Space Station, after a three-month ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA called off Sunday's planned launch of the space shuttle Atlantis after a gauge in a fuel tank failed for the second time in four days. It was not immediately clear when ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A snagged cable forced Atlantis' astronauts to resort to a more inconvenient and less comprehensive method of inspecting their space shuttle Saturday as they sped toward a ...

The final contractual milestone on the way to protoype testing of Norway's novel Atlantis artificial buoyant seabed concept should be reached in a few days. Development company Atlantis Deepwater ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its astronauts delivered a sparkling new lab to the international space station Saturday, but had to delay installing it by a day because of a crew ...

NASA’s final space shuttle flight is targeted to launch July 8 at about 11:40 a.m. EDT from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four veteran astronauts will fly aboard shuttle Atlantis to ...