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 ...

On Friday aboard Atlantis, this last crew will make NASA's 135th and final shuttle flight. It will be years before the United States sends its own spacecraft up again.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Today marks 39 years since the tragic Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, honoring the brave pioneers who lost their lives in space. 87° Make wishtv.com your home page ...