We promise to take good care of space station," astronaut Donald Pettit told departing cosmonaut Valery Korman. The departure represents a long-overdue homecoming for Korman, cosmonaut Sergei ...

Atlantis' crew meets the press at NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility. From left are James Reilly, Danny Olivas, Clayton Anderson (at the microphone), Steve Swanson, Pat Forrester, pilot Lee ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The astronauts making NASA's last shuttle flight gave up their off-duty time Sunday and finished packing up their gigantic suitcase for the ride home.

After more than a week of busy spaceflight, the astronaut crew of NASA space shuttle Discovery is taking a well-deserved break from their orbital duties, while engineers on the ground study a ...

This morning, launch day, started at 5am when the line started forming for the crew walkout, when Atlantis' 4-person crew head to the spacecraft. The crew walkout is mostly a photo op.

Lacking the proper laser tools, shuttle Discovery's astronauts performed a cursory wing inspection Sunday as they zoomed ever closer to the international space station. The astronauts used their ...

Japanese crew member Koichi Wakata is to use Discovery's 50-foot (15-meter) robotic arm to move the box holding the gyroscopes from the shuttle cargo bay to the station.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave the last space shuttle astronauts, the STS-135 crew, a proclamation declaring today "STS-135 Atlantis Crew Day." ... at the Eventi Hotel in Manhattan.

Airline crews in uniform in hotel lobbies around the world checking in after a long duty or heading to the airport shuttle for their return flight. For hotel chain operators, contracts to provide ...

In the case of the space shuttle, there was a large external tank in addition to the boosters which held propellant. In the case of the Crew Dragon, it’s attached to a Falcon 9 rocket which is ...