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

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.

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts will remain in orbit a little longer than planned.

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

At least two people were killed when a blinding sandstorm surprised motorists in the desert north of Los Angeles.

A huge explosion killed two workers and critically injured four others at a Mojave Desert airport site used by a pioneering aerospace company linked to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism business.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts took a detour across the US and landed safely in California, ending a two-week mission of construction on the international space station.

NASA planned another attempt to return the US space shuttle Atlantis to Earth today after bad weather in Florida a day earlier kept its seven astronauts in space an extra 24 hours.

NASA managers picked Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the space shuttle Discovery to touch down tonight after wrestling with weather conditions at three landing sites.

NASA scrubbed space shuttle Discovery’s first landing plan tonight because of rain at Kennedy Space Center and was considering ordering a New Mexico landing - something it has done only once before.

Nasa managers cleared Discovery to return home today, planning for a possible touchdown in New Mexico for only the second time in space shuttle history because of bad weather on both coasts.

Nasa managers may have to decide between three imperfect choices as they try to select a landing site for the shuttle Discovery.

DISCOVERY and its crew of seven glided safely back to Earth yesterday, ending a riveting, at times agonising, 14-day test of space shuttle safety that was shadowed by the ghosts of Columbia.

From the Johnson Space Centre in Texas to Capitol Hill in Washington DC, the relief was obvious when space shuttle Discovery safely returned to terra firma.

The space shuttle Discovery landed in California today, ending a tense mission that was fraught with problems.

Nasa cancelled plans to land space shuttle Discovery in Florida today because of stormy weather and changed the landing site to California.

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery were ready to put on the brakes today and begin descending from orbit with hopes of having their feet back on the ground before daybreak.

A tiny unmanned Nasa “scramjet” soared above the Pacific Ocean at nearly 10 times the speed of sound – almost 7,000mph – in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology.

A ROBOTIC plane has dropped a bomb near a truck at Edwards Air Force Base in California marking another step forward for technology the US military hopes will one day replace human pilots on dangerous combat missions.

Forced to avoid rainy Florida, space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-man crew landed in California today after installing a 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 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.