Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

Discovery’s STS-119 flight is carrying the space station’s fourth and final set of solar ... during the next station shuttle mission, STS-127, targeted to launch in June 2009.