Atlantis has concluded her historic 13-day mission to the International Space Station with a perfect landing at KSC. With a ‘go’ for deorbit and entry operations from Flight Controllers – confirmed thanks to excellent weather conditions at Kennedy – Atlantis’ 0556 EDT landing was saluted with a four minute visible, overhead pass by the ISS just nine minutes before Atlantis landed to conclude the 30-year Space Shuttle Program.
A master alarm onboard Atlantis woke the crew from their sleep, after a General Purpose…
After nearly 12 days of docked operations with Space Station Alpha, the Space Shuttle Endeavour,…
As Endeavour heads into the sunset portion of her historic final voyage to space, her…
Endeavour’s flight crew have completed the second of four planned EVAs/spacewalks – focusing on port SARJ…
Following the decision made by the Mission Management Team (MMT) to press ahead with a…
Endeavour’s flight crew have completed the mission’s first EVA, focusing on MISSE experiment swap outs and…
The STS-134 crew have completed the installation of ExPRESS Logistics Carrier -3 (ELC-3) to round…
Preparations for Atlantis’ honor of rounding off the 30 year long Space Shuttle program are…
April 12, 1981: the 20th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight in history. On that…
25-years ago today, Space Shuttle Challenger was lost with all hands in the bright blue…
As work continues on Discovery’s External Tank’s (ET) Intertank stringers, Space Shuttle Program (SSP) managers…
NASA and Lockheed Martin managers at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) have spoken pride in…
A multi-stage approach to the mitigation of foam liberations from the intertank region of the…
The Shuttle Derived Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle (SD HLV) Assessment has been completed, the result of…
While the three shuttle orbiters continue to enjoy nominal processing flows, managers are continuing to evaluate the exact…
Wide-ranging evaluations are taking place for the closeout of the shuttle program, with STS-133 and…
On the 29th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle mission (April 12), Discovery continues to…
Flight Day 5 (FD-5) for STS-131 has seen the completion of the first of three scheduled…
As engineering preparations continue in earnest for the April 5 launch of Discovery, KSC engineers…
