CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - The mock countdownhas begun for NASA's first astronaut crew to ride a space shuttle into orbitsince the Columbiadisaster. The sevenastronauts of NASA's STS-114 mission have begun ...

When she was just a child attending summer camp, Eileen Collins watched nearby sailplanes taking off into the sky and decided that she, too, would leave the ground one day. By age 16, she had begun ...

NEW YORK -Three NASA astronauts who flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery during therecent STS-114 mission met with hundreds of students Tuesday to discuss theirspaceflight and hopefully inspire the ...

All seven members of the STS-114 crew were busy at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Feb. 10 and 11, further familiarizing themselves with the spacecraft that will take them on the Space ...

On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first "Return to Flight" mission following the Columbia disaster that killed seven crewmembers a little over two years earlier. A few ...

News conferences, events and operating hours for NASA Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) News Center are set for the July 13 launch of the Return to Flight (RTF) mission STS-114. The news conferences and ...

NASA is settling on a plan for the space shuttle’s “return to flight” next year, internal documents obtained by MSNBC.com show. These plans include moving the launch date for the flight, called ...

There is no shortage of experience at the helm of NASA’s next space shuttle mission. With a total of four shuttle flights and 844 hours of space time between them, STS-114 commander Eileen Collins and ...

The Shuttle Discovery and its seven crewmembers are now in orbit after cruising through key flight milestones. On mission STS-114, the crew will perform inspections on orbit for the first time of all ...

The STS-114 astronauts are conducting more inspections of Space Shuttle Discovery’s heat shield this morning. They are using the Orbiter Boom Sensor System attached to the Shuttle’s robot arm to take ...

If on-orbit repairs fail, or damage is too great, NASA plans to use the ISS as a "safe haven" for the Shuttle crew until it can launch a rescue mission with another Shuttle. For the STS 114 ...

Assignment will see two veterans and one rookie join team that was scheduled to fly on original STS 114 mission The STS 114 Space Shuttle return to flight mission scheduled for late 2004 or early 2005 ...