Landing was at 11:57 a.m. EST, completing the 13-day STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Space shuttle Discovery's 39th and final flight concluded on March 9, 2011. Here ...

The workhorse orbiter, the oldest and most-flown shuttle in NASA's fleet, will be retired at the end of its 11-day mission to the International Space Station. To date, Discovery has traveled 143 ...

The mission encountered a couple of minor problems ... Then, 36 years later Glenn joined the crew of STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. He was 77 years old at the time, giving him an ...

Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being ...

151; -- Space Shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts blasted off a minute before midnight on a mission to deliver supplies and a fresh crewmember to the International Space Station. NASA had ...

Peggy Whitson couldn’t make it to her induction ceremony for the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame alongside fellow inductee ...

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year ...

In its 30-year history since beginning in 1981, the Space Shuttle Program’s fleet — Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour — flew 135 missions, clocking in at a total of ...

Space shuttle Discovery is set to make one last trip to the launch pad late Monday (Sept. 20) to gear up for its final mission as NASA moves closer to retiring its orbiter fleet for good.

STS-31 was Discovery's 10th launch, and it was the 35th space shuttle mission overall. One day after reaching orbit (April 25), the STS-31 crew deployed Hubble, and then spent most of the duration ...