<em>Atlantis</em> astronauts finished packing more than two tonnes of old equipment and trash on Sunday for the last shuttle ride back to Earth.
Space shuttle Endeavour departed the International Space Station late on Sunday, clearing the way for a final cargo run to the outpost.
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/ 25 February 2011
<i>Discovery</i> blasted off for the last time on Thursday, carrying six astronauts and carting a load of supplies and a robot for the space station.
Space shuttle Discovery rocketed into orbit early on Saturday, carrying lab equipment, supplies, spare parts and genetically altered mice.
A Canadian astronaut on the International Space Station said on Sunday it looks like Earth’s ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit.
Nasa has some advice for the elite Navy diver-turned-astronaut whose first spacewalk was cut short because of an air issue: Breathe easily.
The US investment in the Apollo space programme paid off handsomely, unlike the -billion plowed into the International Space Station.
Space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts blasted off on Monday on an ambitious 11-day mission to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope.
Visiting shuttle Discovery astronauts on Friday unfurled the new solar panel wings they installed onto the International Space Station.
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/ 15 November 2008
The US space shuttle Endeavour soared off its seaside launch pad on Friday on a mission to upgrade the International Space Station.