The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth safely last night, bringing home two Americans and a Russian who spent almost six months living and working on the international space station.

The space shuttle Endeavour thundered away from Cape Canaveral in Florida last night, carrying seven astronauts on a mission to install a massive billion-dollar robot arm on the international space station.

Space shuttle Discovery faces a windy and rainy forecast that could alter its trip back to Earth with the first crew of the international space station on board.

Space shuttle Discovery has blasted off to rendezvous with the international space station, Alpha.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed in the Mojave Desert last night after three days of bad weather prevented the ship from returning to its Florida home port.

Astronauts on board the Atlantis shuttle were due to take a space walk today to help attach a temporary docking port to the Alpha space station’s new science laboratory.

NASA is preparing to launch a laboratory for the international space station.