Discovery and its crew of seven landed safely back to Earth on Tuesday, ending a 14-day test of space shuttle safety that was shadowed by the disaster two and a half years ago of the shuttle Columbia.

“We’re looking forward to coming home,” Commander Eileen Collins radioed to Mission Control upon crew wakeup at 8:30 p.m. EDT today. Collins and her crewmates immediately began preparing the orbiter ...

Commander Eileen Collins and the six-member Space Shuttle Discovery crew are scheduled to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at approximately 4:46 a.m. EDT, Monday. Discovery began the 13-day ...

The space shuttle system has been modified many times since the first launch of space shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, major upgrade programs were established to respond to problems and ...