Officials also checked modifications to Atlantis' external fuel tank, reinforcements designed to prevent the type of cracks found on the shuttle Discovery's tank before its own final launch ...

Here’s how it works. With just one more mission remaining before the end of NASA’s storied 30-year space shuttle, the agency has shifted its focus to the final launch of Atlantis on July 8.

The space shuttle launch marks the last in NASA's history, closing out a government-funded space program that lasted 30 years. "The shuttle's always going to be a reflection of what a great nation ...

President Barack Obama lauded NASA's final space shuttle launch Friday (July 8), saying that the blastoff marks the end of one chapter of human spaceflight, but also the start of a new one.

WASHINGTON – Less than two weeks before the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on its last flight, uncertainty still remains as to exactly when NASA's very final orbiter mission will ...

NASA this week marked the 10th anniversary of the final space shuttle launch, which took place on July 8, 2011. The space agency on Thursday reposted a video of the launch of mission STS-135 from ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronauts slated to launch on NASA's final space shuttle mission took part today (June 23) in their last full dress rehearsal for their July liftoff. Led by mission ...

[Gallery: Building Space Shuttle Discovery ] Final launch ahead On its 11-day mission, Discovery will deliver supplies, including critical hardware and a permanent storage closet, to the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--After a cliff-hanger countdown, the space shuttle Atlantis thundered to life and majestically rocketed into history Friday, putting on one last sky show for spectators ...

If Discovery isn't off the ground by then, launch will slip to December 1, the opening of the year's final shuttle launch window. "We don't fly with unknown risk and right now, this risk is still ...

All three say they are sorry to see the program retire when Atlantis returns from the 135th and final shuttle launch later this month. “It is an amazing machine, probably the most complex space ...