Astronaut and Air Force Col. Benjamin Drew has been assigned to the STS-118 space shuttle mission, targeted for an August launch, NASA said in Houston. Drew, a Washington native, will take a seat on ...

Thanks for the great day yesterday! You are an awesome crew! We are looking forward to the EVA today. As you were briefed last night, the EVA will be shortened so that hatch closure can take place ...

Astronaut Rick Mastracchio noticed a small hole in his glove about four hours into the second planned 6.5-hour spacewalk scheduled while the STS-118 crew is visiting the International Space Station ...

STS-118 and Endeavour are homeNASA officials were correct in their analysis of the hole in the underside of Endeavour. In the end, the space shuttle safely returned from its swift and heated descent ...

HOUSTON -- Apair of spacewalking astronauts will venture outside the International SpaceStation (ISS) Wednesday to prime the orbital laboratory for future constructionas NASA works to determine ...

NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today announced that Barbara Morgan, the agency’s first Educator Astronaut, has been assigned as a crewmember on STS-118, a November 2003 Space Shuttle mission to the ...

WASHINGTON – The seven space shuttle Endeavour astronauts who returned to Earth last month will share mission highlights with NASA employees at the agency’s headquarters on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 10 a.m.

Astronaut Jeff Williams presses up to the Earth-facing window inside the space station's Destiny laboratory in April 2006. NASA A long-delayed trip for teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, the ...

Teacher-turned-astronautBarbara Morgan and her six crewmates have a warm welcome ahead of them whentheir shuttle Endeavour arrives at the International Space Station (ISS) latertoday. Aboard theISS, ...