Photo: The drag chute is deployed as the space shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing STS-135, the final mission of the NASA shuttle program, on Thursday, July 21, ...

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:40:43 GMT — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) " Atlantis and four astronauts returned from the International Space Station in triumph Thursday, bringing an end to NASA's 30-year shuttle ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After a high flying repair job to the Hubble Space Telescope, the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis was scheduled to come home Friday morning. The only problem was the weather.

The crew of seven aboard the space shuttle Atlantis spent an extra day inorbit after poor weather conditions prevented them from returning home onFriday. Showers and thunderstorms as well as low ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely Friday, ending a two-week mission to deliver an addition to the international space station and bring a crew ...

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The space shuttle Atlantis made what's likely to be its last landing today at Cape Canaveral. Robert Block, space editor for the Orlando Sentinel , called it "a beautiful, bittersweet homecoming," ...

The space shuttle passed into history Thursday, the words "wheels stop" crackling over the cockpit radio for the last time. In an almost anticlimactic end to the 30-year-old program, Atlantis and its ...