The space shuttle Atlantis takes its final planned spaceflight, from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station. It caps off a 25-year career of flying in space. May 23: This photo shows an ...

Assuming the weather cooperates, a crew of four will lift off Friday morning on the very last flight ever for NASA's space shuttles. Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — Accompanied by astronauts and shuttle workers, Atlantis made a slow, solemn journey to retirement Friday, the last space shuttle to orbit the world and the last to leave NASA's nest.

First launched in October 1985, Atlantis has docked at space stations, launched planetary probes, and last year visited the Hubble Space Telescope for a final overhaul. Bill Harwood has been covering ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Accompanied by a fleet of astronauts spanning NASA’s entire existence, Atlantis made a slow, solemn journey to retirement Friday, the last space shuttle to orbit the world ...

Space shuttle Atlantis has left the building — NASA's voluminous Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida — for the final time. The last of the space agency's retired ...

When space shuttle Atlantis lifts off later this week onwhat NASA has planned to be its final flight, helping to launch it will be arocket booster segment that first flew 25 years ago on the orbiter's ...

Backdropped by Earth, space shuttle Atlantis is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crewmember as the shuttle approaches the International Space Station during STS-132 rendezvous ...

How would you look after 120 million miles? Atlantis might appear a little scuffed up to outsiders as it heads into retirement after a quarter-century of spaceflight. But to the trained eyes of NASA ...

Fri, 14 May 2010 14:37:32 GMT — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) " Space shuttle Atlantis thundered away on its final voyage to orbit Friday, hoisting an experienced crew of six and a full shipment of space ...

This story was updated at 12:47 p.m. ET. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA has cleared the space shuttle Atlantis for its finalplanned launch on Friday afternoon as the U.S. space agency prepares to ...

Despite the possibility of delays due to weather, the space shuttle Atlantis successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on schedule this morning at 11:26 EDT. It is the final flight both for ...