Veteran crew named for final space shuttle flight

Shuttle Atlantis to dock with space station

By: intellectual

The space shuttle Atlantis is heading for a late-morning rendezvous with the International Space Station. The shuttle and the orbiting stations are slated to dock Wednesday at 11:53 a.m. ET. But just before the link-up, Atlantis will perform a pirouette so that cameras at the ISS can do a final check for damage to the thermal tiles on the shuttle'...

12 days ago

Shuttle Atlantis Blasts Off Into Space Monday

By: WordSlinger

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida - The six member crew of Atlantis blasted off Monday at the 2:28 eastern time zone schedule to begin its eleven day mission to deliver more than 27,000 pounds of spare parts to the International Space Station. Some parts are for systems that keep the station from overheating or tumbling through space. ...

14 days ago

Shuttle Atlantis docks with space station

By: inamshah

The space shuttle Atlantis successfully docked Wednesday with the International Space Station and the hatch separating the crews was opened for the traditional welcoming ceremony, Nasa said.The shuttle and its six astronauts left Florida's Kennedy Space Centre without a hitch on Monday on a 11-day voyage to deliver a 20,000-pound (9,071-kilogram) ...

11 days ago

Atlantis astronauts complete third spacewalk of mission

By: azhar12

U.S. astronauts Randolph Bresnik and Robert Satcher Jr. completed a five hour, 42 minute spacewalk at 2:06 p.m. EST (1906 GMT) on Monday, which is the third and final spacewalk for space shuttle Atlantis's STS-129 mission, NASA said.     During the spacewalk, the pair transferred an oxygen filled High Pressure Gas Tank (...

6 days ago