The shuttle Endeavour has maintained a heading through the streets of Los Angeles toward its retirement home at a museum.

The space shuttle Endeavour has landed in California where it will spend its retirement in a Los Angeles museum.

As men in Cork have the country’s highest rates of self-harming, a year-long course teaching coping skills is to be offered around the city and county.

A year-long course teaching coping skills is to be offered around Cork city and county, where men have the country’s highest rates of self-harming.

A NEW HSE programme in Cork which helps to reduce self-harm is to be rolled out across the county.

THE start-up business programme, Endeavour, has announced the 14 companies that have been selected to complete its 2011 start-up programme.

Space shuttle Atlantis has left the International Space Station for the last time.

The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six landed at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, early today.

Two astronauts made history today as the final spacewalkers of Nasa’s 30-year shuttle programme, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension boom.

Nasa managers have cut short the spacewalk by two Endeavour shuttle astronauts because one of their carbon dioxide sensors stopped working.

Space Shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts arrived at the International Space Station today with the most expensive payload ever carried by a shuttle, a $2bn magnetic device scientists hope will unravel the mysteries of the cosmos.

A space shuttle took flight for the next-to-last time as US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, still recovering from a gunshot wound and hidden from public view, watched her astronaut husband rocket through the clouds in a deafening roar.

ENDEAVOUR blasted off on NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit as the mission commander’s wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

Space shuttle Endeavour has blasted off on the next-to-last flight fo the programme under the command of Mark Kelly, the husband of shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords.

In a remarkable 36 hours of his presidency, Barack Obama carried a momentous secret but gave no hint of it as he consoled tornado victims, delivered a college commencement address and cracked jokes at a black-tie dinner.

Astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex geared up for the first spacewalk of their mission today, amid some good news from Mission Control.

Space shuttle Discovery arrived at the International Space Station today, making its final visit before being docked in a museum.

THE astronaut husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has decided to go ahead with his shuttle space flight in April.

The astronaut husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has decided to go ahead with his shuttle space flight in April.

START-UP businesses have until January 26, to apply for entry to Endeavour, the funding programme run by entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly, Kernel Capital and Kerry Group.

SPACE shuttle Atlantis has lifted off on its final voyage, carrying an experienced crew of six and a full shipment of space station gear.

The space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned safely to Earth today, ending a mission that resulted in the virtual completion of the International Space Station.

The shuttle Endeavour left the International Space Station and headed home today, leaving behind a nearly-complete outpost with the best ever windows on the world.

IN a highly anticipated grand finale to their mission, astronauts opened the shutters on the International Space Station’s new observation deck yesterday and were humbled by “absolutely spectacular” views of Earth from inside the elaborate atrium of windows.

Astronauts ventured out on the third and final spacewalk of their mission today to unwrap the International Space Station’s new lookout – the best window on the world that orbiting crews have ever had.

Astronauts successfully moved the International Space Station’s new observation deck to its final resting place after a long, frustrating night spent dealing with stuck bolts and wayward wiring.

Space shuttle Endeavour has arrived at the International Space Station.

SPACE shuttle Endeavour rocketed into orbit yesterday on what is likely to be the last night-time launch for the programme.

IRELAND’S next generation of entrepreneurs have just until close of business tomorrow to submit their winning business plans for the chance of a lifetime to work with some of the country’s biggest business names in a world class environment as part of the pioneering Endeavour programme.

IF YOU want to lead the next generation of Irish entrepreneurs, then you’d better get your skates on, because you have just a few days in which to get your application on the desk of the Endeavour people.

THE founder of Aer Arann and Kerry businessman Jerry Kennelly are among the names who have joined forces to launch a Dragons Den-style project to assist aspiring entrepreneurs.

The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer because of a flooded toilet.

ASTRONAUTS working inside and out installed a porch for experiments on Japan’s enormous space station lab, accomplishing the major objective despite microphone static that often drowned out the spacewalkers’ voices.

After more than a month’s delay, space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts thundered into orbit on a flight to the international space station, hauling up a veranda for Japan’s enormous lab and looking to set a crowd record.

Nasa said today it had delayed the launch of space shuttle Discovery while it runs tests to determine whether newly-installed valves would cause serious damage if they broke during lift-off.

Space shuttle Endeavour has to wait another day to make its cross-country return trip to Florida.

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main Florida landing strip.

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts landed safely back on Earth tonight.

Dangerously high wind and a stormy sky prevented space shuttle Endeavour from returning to its home base in Florida today, and Nasa ordered the astronauts to take a detour and land in sunny California.

Nasa managers have cleared space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth today; now all they need is for the weather to co-operate.

Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven have left the international space station, ending a 12-day visit to give the orbiting complex better living quarters for bigger crews.

Astronauts are tinkering with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and sweat into drinkable water, which is vital to allowing the international space station crew to double to six.

Spacewalking astronauts performed more repair work on a jammed joint at the international space station, keeping a tight grip on all their tools so nothing would get away this time.

Space shuttle Endeavour’s astronauts unfurled a 100ft laser-tipped pole and surveyed their ship for any launch damage while drawing ever closer to their destination, the international space station.