WASHINGTON – NASA will hold a media teleconference Friday, May 11, no earlier than 3 p.m. EDT to discuss the space shuttle Atlantis’ external fuel tank. The tank has been repaired after a hail storm ...
Alliant Techsystems’ reusable solid rocket motors (RSRM) performed flawlessly today, providing more than six million pounds of thrust as NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis launched into orbit to begin a 11 ...
Image: STS-117 Mission Specialist John “Danny” Olivas (top) exits the International Space Station’s Quest airlock during the early moments of the mission’s first spacewalk. His partner, Jim Reilly, ...
COMING HOME: NASA plans to bring astronaut Sunita Williams home from the International Space Station on the upcoming STS-117 mission, now scheduled for June, instead of the STS-118 mission after that.