Oct. 24 -- After two days of weather delays, the space shuttle Discovery is finally facing better chances for a landing today in California. Winds, rain and clouds continue to loo ...

Gathering in person to watch a space shuttle landing may be a tradition of the past, but a look back is reigniting the excitement among the space-loving community.

If landing occurs as scheduled, this will be the 63rd landing at Kennedy in the history of the shuttle program. Atlantis will be serviced and prepared for its next mission, STS-117, set for ...

Renting the LLF, which was once used as a landing strip for NASA’s Space Shuttle and serves aerospace purposes like delivering the United Launch Alliance’s rocket stages, can cost $2,200 for a ...

N. Wayne Hale Jr., space shuttle program manager, said yesterday during a briefing in Houston. "Is it something benign, or is it something more critical we should pay attention to?

Altogether, Mission Control will have five landing opportunities to work with, the first at the Florida shuttle port at 9:52 a.m. CDT. The last opportunity of the day is in California at 4:10 p.m.

Back to the moon: Odysseus pulls off first US lunar landing in 50 years. What will it do now? Bolstered by a 2016 Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract from NASA to carry cargo to and ...

Flawless touchdowns have come to seem routine since the inaugural shuttle flight in April 1981 but they are not a given. Landing safely is an overarching goal as NASA prepares for its final space ...