CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After 143 million miles and nearly a year all told in orbit, space shuttle Discovery is poised to blast off Thursday one last time. NASA began fueling its most traveled shuttle ...

CAPECANAVERAL, Fla. - With the space shuttle Discovery back on Earth and its astronautcrew safe and sound, NASA is commending the successful spaceflight--the spaceagency's first since the Columbia ...

Closing out its 39th and final flight, the shuttle Discovery returns to Earth, marking the beginning of the end for NASA's winged orbiters. William Harwood Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S.

The shuttle Discovery — NASA's most-flown space plane — will take one last flight this week, but will never leave the planet again. The shuttle's final mission is a piggyback ride atop a jumbo jet so ...

NASA's space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch today at 3:29 pm Friday at 3:04 PM on November 30. This will be the shuttle's final flight, before being retired along with the rest of the NASA ...

Discovery arrived in Washington, D.C., Tuesday where it will become the newest exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum -- following nearly 149 million miles of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Discovery, the world's most traveled spaceship, thundered into orbit for the final time Thursday, heading toward the International Space Station on a journey that marks the ...

WASHINGTON — Space shuttle Discovery, NASA's fleet leader and the world's most flown spacecraft, lifted off for the last time on Tuesday (April 17) to be delivered to the Smithsonian for its permanent ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- NASA's space shuttle Discovery lifted into space Thursday on its final mission, 11 days that will crown a busy and eventful 27 years of duty, officials said.