After more than two years without a space-shuttle mission, in July 2005 NASA returned to human space flight with the launch of the Discovery. But not all went as planned. Some debris was spotted ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — With the resumption of space shuttle flight possibly three months away, launch fever has begun to rise at America’s spaceport, and Thursday the commander of the first ...

The space shuttle Discovery glided to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California early Tuesday morning after a 14-day mission. Jeffrey Brown talks about the shuttle's return and what comes next ...

CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA engineers here are ramping up efforts toreturn the space shuttle Discovery to flight status, the agency's first mannedspacecraft set to fly since the loss of the shuttle ...

The shuttle Discovery launch, scheduled for Wednesday, will be NASA's first manned mission since the Columbia disaster two-and-a-half years ago. For two-and-a-half years, astronauts have been training ...