The liftoff, less than an hour before sunrise, helped clinch a record for the most women in space at the same time. Three women are aboard Discovery, and another already is at the space station, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — The space shuttle Endeavour was set to launch Saturday with Canada’s Julie Payette on board for her second mission, but thunderstorms were threatening to force yet another ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery and seven astronauts headed for a rendezvous with the International Space Station after a pre-dawn liftoff today on one of the last missions for NASA’s shuttle program ...

They also will drop off science experiments as well as an extra sleeping compartment, a darkroom to improve picture-taking from the lab's high-quality window, and other equipment totaling thousands of ...