STS-119 Commander Lee Archambault, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Mission Specialists Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold will visit NASA’s Glenn Research Center on Wednesday, May 6. Arnold, a former teacher, ...

Mission Control has given the spaceshuttle Discovery the go ahead to fire its engines to startapproaching the International Space Station for today?s planned 5:13 p.m.EDT (2113 GMT) docking today. The ...

The crew of STS-119, which is the 125th shuttle mission, will mount the S6 truss onto the S5 truss, which will provide the fourth set of solar arrays, batteries, and radiators to the Space Station.

NASA’s Digital Learning Network is celebrating the launch of space shuttle mission STS-119. The crew of STS-119 includes two classroom teachers who were selected as astronauts in 2004. Scheduled to ...

March 28: A Kennedy Space Center fire truck starts it's engine sending smoke into the air as the space shuttle Discovery prepares to land on runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, ...

Check out the iTWire Science article " STS-119 launch now March 12, but with continuing valve concerns " for additional information. For additional information on the mission and the crew members of ...

During STS-126, the LDRI unit had occurrences of as much as 80 seconds of video loss during Late Inspection. The most noticeable occurrence happened during Port wing scan 1 when panel 8 and 1/2 of ...

Received this in my inbox this morning from one of my coworkers who works with the ground team at KSC. Contained herein is the sad tale of the littlest astronaut--a Florida bat, species unknown by me, ...

Space shuttle Discovery?s commander Lee Archambaultsaid his crew is happyto be back Earth at their spacecraft?s homeport at the Kennedy Space Centerin Florida and proud to have boosted the ...

Congratulations on a spectacular launch! The FD02 MMT met briefly to review mission progress with only a few items of discussion. Discovery is performing very well and the team is looking forward to a ...