The STS-116 crew’s stay at the International Space Station came to an end Tuesday when Space Shuttle Discovery undocked at 5:10 p.m. EST. During its eight-day visit, the STS-116 crew added a new truss ...

Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-116 mission to the International Space Station is one of the most complex ever. Seven shuttle astronauts and three station astronauts will work closely with flight ...

STS-116 commander Mark Polansky,pilot Bill Oefelein, NASA mission specialists Robert Curbeam, Nicholas Patrick, Joan Higginbotham, and Swedish astronautChrister Fuglesang haveexited shuttle Discovery, ...

Joan Higginbotham, who spent 12 days aboard the International Space Station and on a NASA Shuttle mission, now promotes STEM subjects in her role at the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex ...

With Space Shuttle Discovery poised on the launch pad for the next assembly mission to the International Space Station, NASA managers plan to hold a news conference at approximately 3 p.m. EST, ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 28, 2006 — -- NASA would like to announce Dec. 7 as the official launch date for STS-116, the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. It had been tentatively ...

While the main purpose of the STS-116 space shuttle mission is to get on with building the space station, the astronauts also will do an assortment of smaller experiments and hardware tests during ...

HOUSTON - Astronauts RobertCurbeam and Sunita Williams have officially concluded the thirdspacewalk of the joint mission between the International Space Station and theDiscovery shuttle. A ...