Atlantis has docked to the International Space Station (ISS) – one final time – following an emotional R-Bar Pitch Maneuver (RPM) and text book approach to the orbital outpost. Her mission performance continues to be exemplary, as the Damage Assessment Team review the health of the Thermal Protection System, in tandem with data from the orbiter’s Wing Leading Edge Impact Detection System (WLEIDS).
For Atlantis, the last decade of her career would be marked with many more triumphs…
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) have launched their Delta II rocket to loft the SAC-D…
Shuttle Endeavour is back in space for what is scheduled to be her final mission.…
Shuttle Endeavour – the youngest orbiter in the fleet – was preparing for her final…
From the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program, the promise of a permanent, space-based work…
Atlantis is continuing to enjoy a smooth processing flow inside her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2)…
For over 29 years engineers, space enthusiasts, and people around the world have marveled at the technological…
With unacceptable weather at KSC restricting preparations for STS-133’s Tanking Test, managers decided to delay…
As work continues on Discovery’s External Tank’s (ET) Intertank stringers, Space Shuttle Program (SSP) managers…
The International Space Station (ISS) may live on until 2028, following confirmation by the Space…
And so to the end. With a flawless countdown and a launch into a clear…
Clouds over the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) have scrubbed Endeavour’s launch by 24 hours. Earlier,…
With just under one week to go before the opening launch attempt for Space Shuttle…
An Engineering Review Board (ERB) meeting has created an aggressive forward plan to add instrumentation…
With Space Shuttle Atlantis now officially targeting a launch on November 16, Space Shuttle Program…
Space Shuttle Program (SSP) manager John Shannon has claimed that Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP)…
With Discovery experiencing only minor hiccups thus far in her logistics mission to the International…
STS-128 entered into S0007 (launch countdown) operations at 11pm on Friday evening, as engineers at…
With STS-128 and Discovery officially cleared by the SOMD (Space Operations Mission Directorate) FRR for…
