Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven rocketed into orbit Sunday evening, setting off on a space station construction mission cut short by launch delays that dragged on for more than a month.

A Soviet cosmonaut, he spent 362 days in flight on three missions. He returned 18 years later on a U.S. shuttle to the Mir space station. By Sam Roberts Mr. Hartsfield, who logged 483 hours in space, ...

Discovery's crew used highly sensitive cameras attached to a 50-foot boom Wednesday to carefully examine the space shuttle for any signs of damage from the previous day's launch. Nothing serious was ...

Shuttle spotter Tina Paul snapped this amazing close-up of Discovery soaring over the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Md., on April 17, 2012 as ...

The final launch of space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed for the fourth time in as many days Friday, raising questions among some space watchers on when old becomes too old. Two hours into fueling ...

This story was updated at 12:17 p.m. EST. Now that NASA's space shuttle Discovery has returned to Earth for the final time, it will begin preparations for another long journey — the road to retirement ...

NASA engineers are replacing fuel line seals on the Space Shuttle Discovery to staunch a small leak in time for the spacecraft’s final blastoff on Nov. 1. Shuttle technicians are replacing two suspect ...

NASA is now aiming for a Dec. 3 launch for the space shuttle Discovery's final voyage, after a month of delays, malfunctions and subsequent repairs. If all goes well, Discovery should be ready to ...

Thisstory was updated at 12:46 p.m. EDT. HOUSTON - TheInternational Space Station (ISS) is back at full strength once more afterNASA's Discovery shuttle astronauts delivered a third crewmember to the ...

The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to lift off Wednesday. Richard Harris reports on the shuttle's seven-person crew, and their assessments of one another, at their pre-flight briefing. It marks ...