At 15,000 feet (4,572 m) in length, the Shuttle Landing Facility was so long that it'd tower over everything but the most prominent mountain ranges in the world if stacked into the sky. Most normal ...

The Atlantis astronauts tested the shuttle's re-entry systems early Tuesday and packed for a Florida landing Wednesday, weather permitting, to close out a successful space station assembly mission, ...

While the upcoming launch of the space shuttle Discovery will mark the return to flight of NASA’s space shuttle fleet, it is only the beginning of the great care being taken to assure a successful ...

This NASA TV still shows the head's up display view from pilot Doug Hurley's seat on space shuttle Atlantis during the final space shuttle landing on July 21, 2011 at the Kennedy Space Center in ...

The space shuttle Endeavour closes out a 16-day space station construction mission with a picture-perfect landing at the Kennedy Space Center. Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program ...

The Space Shuttle Atlantis, led by Commander Brent Jett, is scheduled to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla. on Thursday, Sept. 21, completing space shuttle mission STS-115. Touchdown is ...