The space shuttle Enterprise made its final descent Wednesday, landing at its new home at New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
The space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a 747 jumbo jet, swooped across the New York City skyline on Friday before touching down at the city's John F. Kennedy International Airport, bringing an end to its final flight.
Space shuttle Enterprise flies past the Statue of Liberty and other landmarks on the way to its new home at the Intrepid.
The recent drought has ruined millions of acres of farmland in Texas, turning lakes into mud puddles, but in the East Texas city of Nacogdoches, authorities say, the drought may have done something good: Unearthed a piece of the space shuttle Columbia.
Soaring across the predawn haze, the space shuttle Atlantis glided back to Earth early Thursday -- capping a 30-year program that saw hundreds of astronauts go into space.
As crew members of the last space shuttle flight hovered over Earth for the final time, they spoke with CNN Wednesday about the next frontier in space flight.
For the last time in the foreseeable future, a U.S. space shuttle undocked from the International Space Station.
Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Friday morning on the final mission of America's 30-year shuttle program, a thunderously poignant moment that drew people from around the world to watch.
The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Friday morning, marking the last blast-off of NASA's 30-year shuttle program.
Astronaut Robert Crippen on flying the first shuttle mission, and what it's like to see the program come to an end.
Pioneers in the field of commercial space sit down with CNN's John Zarrella to discuss what's next for space travel.
When space shuttle Endeavour blasts off Monday on its final journey, I'll be thinking about the shuttle's three remarkable decades of service.
Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space -- the date was April 12, 1961. Twenty years later on April 12, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen got on board the space shuttle Columbia, a craft that looked more like a plane that a rocket ship. It launched an entirely new era in space flight.
Museums around the country are trying to get their hands on a space shuttle orbiter. CNN's John Zarrella reports.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three crew members from the International Space Station lands in Kazakhstan Friday.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three crew members from the International Space Station landed in Kazakhstan Friday morning, the U.S. space agency NASA said.
A few weeks ago Col. Lawrence Sellin, a Special Forces officer stationed in Afghanistan, fell victim to a particularly modern hazard of war: PowerPoint fatigue.
Two cosmonauts and an American astronaut were on their way back to Earth from the International Space Station Saturday morning after engineers used jumper cables to fix a glitch that delayed their departure, NASA said.
I've field produced my fair share of disasters and the one thing that always amazes me is the number of people who come together to help their neighbors, their communities, their fellow man. This oil spill is no different.
Sen. Bill Nelson President Obama on Monday unveiled his annual budget for fiscal year 2011. Obama is proposing to cancel the Constellation Program that President Bush launched in 2004. Such a move would make it impossible to return to the moon in the next 10 years, although it would extend the mission of the international space station to 2020. There are also incentives for private companies to provide rides for astronauts.
We're behind the scenes with astronaut Cady Coleman as she spends time with her son and trains in Russia.
At her home in this woodsy town east of the Berkshires, Catherine "Cady" Coleman often steps outside with her husband and son to peer at the night sky.
Editor's note: Buzz Aldrin, whose new book is "Magnificent Desolation," was one of the two American astronauts who were the first people to set foot on the moon. Aldrin says a mission to colonize Mars would restore a sense of adventure and excitement to space travel.
An Israel air force pilot, the son of an astronaut who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, was killed Sunday in an F-16 fighter jet crash, Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
The first man on the moon marked the 40th anniversary of his historic achievement with characteristic understatement Monday, calling the program that put him on the lunar surface "a good thing to do."
Four decades have passed since the summer of 1969, when Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and I flew America's first lunar landing mission.
A survey of space shuttle Atlantis' outer body has revealed that four tiles on the right side have "some dings" in them, the flight director said Tuesday.
CNN's John Zarrella reports NASA ready with rescue shuttle if Atlantis and crew in trouble.
With space shuttle Atlantis on its way to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, that leaves one shuttle, Endeavour, at the ready on the other launch pad here.
Final preparations are under way for Monday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in a repair mission for the Hubble Space Telescope.
The U.S. space agency might try to launch space shuttle Atlantis on May 11, a day earlier than scheduled, administrators announced Thursday in Houston.
A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems with the crew's helmets, spacesuits and restraints, which resulted in "lethal trauma" to the seven astronauts aboard.
CNN's John Zarrella reports on NASA's inquiry into the Columbia shuttle tragedy.
The international space station's three crew members Sunday welcomed aboard space shuttle Endeavour's seven astronauts, who arrived to help install more living areas and upgrade amenities.
CNN's Miles O'Brien reports on space shuttle Endeavour docking with the International Space Station.
NASA said Saturday that the day-old mission of space shuttle Endeavour, which is carrying seven astronauts to the international space station, is going smoothly despite problems with a lost thermal blanket and a malfunctioning antenna.
Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem
NASA moved shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad on Thursday for a flight next month to the Hubble Space Telescope after being waylaid by a pair of tropical storms
The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday
CNN Miles O'Brien walks us through the landing of Shuttle Discovery.
During Columbia's fateful mission, the disk drive had been used to store data from a scientific experiment on the properties of liquid xenon
Space shuttle Endeavour lands at Kennedy Space Center after a two-week mission.
Endeavour commander Dominic Gorie is pleased with the mission as the shuttle leaves the international space station.
Amazing pictures of the fourth spacewalk of the STS-123 mission.
In a rare night launch, the shuttle Endeavour and its crew take off to on a mission to the international space station.
Use this explainer to help students understand the history of the space shuttle program, a topic relevant to current news.
Atlantis undocks
updated: Mon Feb 18 2008 09:17:00
The Space Shuttle Atlantis undocks from the international space station as it prepares to return to Earth.
Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off for a mission to International Space Station.
Astronauts work to repair two defective mechanisms hampering power generation at the International Space Station.
Malfunctioning engine cut-off sensors frustrate NASA mission managers and cause shuttle launch delay.
Atlantis missionupdated: Thu Dec 06 2007 21:18:00
ISS Flight Director Sally Davis talks about Thursday's planned launch of space shuttle Atlantis.
Space Shuttle Discovery successfully returns home after its mission to the International Space Station.
No tile repair for shuttle
The two pilots who will guide shuttle Endeavour back to Earth next week said Friday they are "absolutely 100 percent" behind NASA's decision to skip repairs to the deep gouge on their spaceship's belly.
The space shuttle Endeavour came home a day early on Tuesday after NASA decided to cut short its mission in case Hurricane Dean shut down Johnson Space Center, which directs the shuttle's re-entry and landing.
The ghosts of Challenger and Columbia notwithstanding, NASA's top mission manager decides the gouged shuttle Endeavour can withstand re-entry without repair
Endeavour's astronauts ran through never-before-attempted repair methods Thursday in case they had to go out and patch a deep gouge in the space shuttle's belly
Repairing the gouged shuttle is going to take more than technology: it must reflect a transformed bureaucracy
Time.com: What Now, Endeavour?updated: Mon Aug 13 2007 15:00:00
Two days after liftoff, a gouge is discovered on the underside of the space shuttle. Whether or not it needs fixing, it's already re-ignited safety concerns
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