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 ...

The Discovery astronauts are in the home stretch of a busy space station resupply mission, wrapping up equipment transfers before undocking Tuesday and landing Thursday.

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 ...

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.

CAPE CANAVERAL - The Atlantis astronauts capped a practice countdown Thursday with a drill they never want to go through for real: A launch tower escape.

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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 ...

It took Discovery’s crew more than six hours to get 70 minutes of video because they had to move the boom slowly so not to bump the fragile shuttle skin. In 2003, a piece of foam insulation from the ...

The last astronauts to fly aboard a space shuttle broke their fellowship this week by returning to the beginning. In a cavernous building at Johnson Space Center where Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...