NASA gears up for the May 12 launch of space shuttle Atlantis on a long-awaited five-spacewalk mission to give the Hubble Space Telescope a new lease on life. William Harwood Bill Harwood has been ...

NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis is delivering science experiments and a new Russian laboratory to the International Space Station, continuing the transition from station assembly to continuous ...

Just before docking, the shuttle did a backflip so the crew could photograph the thermal shielding. In this image taken from video provided by NASA TV, the space shuttle Atlantis is seen from the ...