On May 11, 2009, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on the fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Rehoming NASA's fleet of space shuttles took a lot of coordination in 2012. Space shuttle Endeavour crawled along the streets ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA and ESA project, was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission took place a few short years after the Challenger disaster, which blew a ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

Space shuttle Atlantis launched on May 11, 2009, carrying two new instruments for the space telescope: the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). When astronauts ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis is prepared for launch, July 2006. NASA As NASA readies Space Shuttle Atlantis for launch this month to resume construction of the International Space Station (ISS), agency ...

Mike Moses — who earned a Florida Tech master’s degree in space sciences in 1991 — delivered a spring commencement speech on the Melbourne campus.

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf ... That final mission was the STS-125 servicing flight on the shuttle Atlantis, which NASA thought would give Hubble ...

Floridians looking for an out-of-this-world experience have an abundance of opportunities to take a journey to another ...