A late move to transfer the space shuttle Discovery from Virginia to Houston was blocked, at least for now, on a Senate ...

Much of the shuttle’s storied history was written in Houston, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. But today, Discovery rests ...

SPACE.com reporter Clara Moskowitz took a tour inside space shuttle Discovery while it was being prepared at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for retirement at the Smithsonian.

"Discovery's ready, the weather's beautiful, America is ready to return the space shuttle to flight. So good luck and Godspeed, Discovery," launch director Mike Leinbach said just before liftoff.

The space shuttle Discovery will make its last journey to its seaside launch pad in Florida tonight (Jan. 31) to once again prepare to fly its final mission before being retired with the rest of ...

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.

America's oldest shuttle lands after 5,830 orbits. March 9, 2011 — -- Space shuttle Discovery came down from a blue Florida sky, turned gracefully and made its last-ever landing today at the ...

The space shuttle Discovery launched at 7:39am, Pacific Time, this morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida; the 114th space shuttle flight in 24 years. Discover was originally set to lift off on July ...

Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion ...

Until this week, Discovery was scheduled to make the last shuttle flight in September. But following touchdown, NASA reported a major delay for its next-to-last mission, a space station trip by ...

Grounded once by bad weather and twice by hydrogen valve concerns, the shuttle was refueled for launch late Friday for a space station resupply mission. Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S ...