Cape Canaveral News

An astronaut anticipating the birth of his daughter at any moment embarked on the first spacewalk of his career Saturday, tackling a load of maintenance work outside the International Space Station. Atlantis crewman Randolph Bresnik ventured out into the black...

Fla. — A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work outside the International Space Station on Thursday and even whipped off an extra chore. Atlantis crewmen Michael Foreman and Dr. Robert Satcher...

Fla.–Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday for a weeklong stay, delivering a load of spare parts needed to keep the outpost running for another decade. The two craft came together 220 miles above the Pacific,...

Florida — Space shuttle Atlantis is closing in on the International Space Station. Atlantis will do a pirouette for the station cameras late Wednesday morning, for a final check to make sure there's no damage to the thermal tiles on...

Space shuttle Atlantis is circling Earth in pursuit of the International Space Station. Atlantis and its crew of six will hook up with the space station Wednesday. In the meantime, the astronauts will pull out an inspection boom Tuesday and...

After the space shuttles are retired in about a year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will have no way to take up any big, heavy replacement pieces to the station...Stott, who has spent three months on the space station,...

Ares I-X rocket Wednesday, after multiple delays over two days because of bad weather...About two minutes after liftoff, the first-stage, reusable rocket booster fell into the Atlantic, where it was to be picked up by a ship...George Diller, who was...

The US space agency was readying for the launch Monday of the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts to deliver equipment that will maintain the nearly completed International Space Station. Here at Kennedy Space Center weather should...

The modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft transporting the shuttle Discovery arrived at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., at 6:39 p.m...The shuttle is being ferried to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla...The aircraft refueled Sunday at Rick Husband International Airport,...

Johnson, a Seattle native who piloted the space-shuttle mission in May, remembers looking at Earth and thinking "how fragile it is," he said. "That's not going to remain unless we take care of it." On Saturday, Johnson returned to his...