One of the jewels in NASA’s crown – the Hubble Space Telescope – is continuing to expand our understanding of the universe, with new findings uncovering a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago. However, the discovery was made via an instrument delivered by Shuttle Atlantis during her STS-125 mission, as her legacy lives on long after her retirement.
The culmination of a 40 plus year enterprise comes today – an endeavor that sought…
A few days after the high-visibility move of Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour to her retirement…
And now Endeavour has the left the building. At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA…
One year to the day since Atlantis launched on her final mission, the exceptional performance by…
Atlantis is closing in on the end of her Transition and Retirement (T&R) processing, following…
Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery’s almost 30 years of processing at Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Orbiter…
With Kennedy Space Center workers towing Orbiter Atlantis on Thursday “around the corner” of the…
It’s the final time Endeavour will enter an OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility). After a storied…
Atlantis departed her Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) on Friday, ahead of arriving inside the Vehicle Assembly…
All good things must come to an end. And thus was the grand finale of…
Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis was powered down for the final time on Thursday, following a…
For Atlantis, the last decade of her career would be marked with many more triumphs…
With Atlantis’s early years behind her, the middle years of OV-104’s impressive career would serve…
The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis, in many ways the middle-child orbiter of the Space Shuttle…
With Discovery safely back on the ground after becoming the first orbiter to successfully complete…
And so to the end. With a flawless countdown and a launch into a clear…
United Space Alliance engineers are working a tentative plan to de-stack Atlantis, pending official confirmation…
Space shuttle Endeavour has been escorted on a mini tour of the Kennedy Space Center…
With STS-125 delayed until at least mid-February, Atlantis has completed her trek back to the…