After nearly 30 years and 134 liftoffs NASA launched its final shuttle into orbit. Space shuttle Atlantis will carry out the program's last mission. While the future of NASA's budget still remains ...

The final chapter of NASA’s shuttle program unfolded in 2011, with Atlantis launching on STS-135 on July 8. The mission carried four astronauts and a cargo bay filled with spare parts and ...

Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle ... STS-89's crew members were the first to reach Mir in a shuttle other than Atlantis. Building the International Space Station Endeavour ...

Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of ... but this mission was canceled by then-NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe due to the fallout from the Columbia disaster.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

On this date, Jan. 5, 1970, President Richard Nixon officially announced his direction to NASA to build the space shuttle ...

A total of 135 NASA Space Shuttle missions were flown, from the maiden orbital flight of the Columbia in 1981 to the last ...

Man: Booster ignition and liftoff of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Narrator ... And after he retired, he was inducted into NASA's Astronaut Hall of Fame. By the way, Parazynski is a physician.