Cape Canaveral News

Fla. — The shuttle Atlantis glided to a flawless Florida landing on Friday, wrapping up an 11-day space station delivery mission and bringing a flight engineer, Nicole P...Dropping out of a clear sky, the shuttle was guided to a tire-...

Thanksgiving dishes for zero gravity, but the seven astronauts orbiting Earth in space shuttle Atlantis this year won't get to enjoy them. Johnson Space Center in Houston. "Their mission was postponed about four days, and so they were supposed to...

Recently, in a response to written questions, an U.S. Air Force spokesperson said the unmanned spaceship X-37B is going to be launched on April 19 next year (2010) on an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The U.S. Air...

Philippine authorities said Wednesday they are investigating a politician allied with the government and four police commanders in connection with an election-related massacre earlier this week. New U.S economic data shows a slowly improving job market but weak sales of...

Atlantis shuttle astronaut Robert Satcher Jr. holds a camera during his mission's first spacewalk Atlantis shuttle astronaut Robert Satcher Jr. holds a camera during his mission's first spacewalk The crew of the shuttle Atlantis plans to spend today wrapping up...

The Intelsat-14 is a commercial satellite but also has components for the Defense Department 's Internet Router in Space program. Once in place, the satellite will be able to provide video and data services to customers in the western hemisphere,...

The third and final spacewalk of space shuttle Atlantis' mission will conclude Monday, 23, 2009, at 1 p.m...Satcher will be joined outside by Randolph Bresnik, the father of a new baby girl. A pair of astronauts stepped out on the...

Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik awoke early on Sunday to a much-anticipated call that his new daughter had been born. Bresnik's wife, Rebecca, gave birth to Abigail Mae Bresnik just after midnight. At the time, Bresnik was in orbit 220...

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...

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...