The space shuttle, Discovery, lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1637 BST after a 90-minute delay due to unsuitable weather conditions. Half a million people in the streets around the Kennedy …

Michael Foale has become the first British-born American to walk in space. Dr Foale - originally from Lincolnshire - and Dr Bernard Harris, the first black astronaut, stepped out into the open …

The American space agency Nasa has successfully launched the space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral in Florida on its historic mission to carry the Hubble space telescope into orbit …

Apr 20, 2010 · The shuttle Discovery has landed back on Earth after a two-week mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The orbiter touched down on runway 33 at the Kennedy …

Apr 5, 2010 · The space shuttle Discovery has blasted off on its mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The shuttle, on one of the final missions before the programme is shut …

Jun 6, 1999 · Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery have made a rare night-time landing on a floodlit runway after completing their mission to the International Space Station.

Nov 12, 2007 · Homework Statement Problem Statement: Astronaut Pam Melroy, history's 3rd woman space shuttle pilot, flew the space shuttle discovery to the International Space Station …

Jul 30, 2005 · Discovery astronauts are back inside the space shuttle after completing the mission's first spacewalk.

American senator John Glenn, the world's oldest astronaut, has landed back on Earth after an historic nine-day mission. In 1962 Mr Glenn became the first American in orbit in a Friendship …

Aug 1, 2005 · The wing of space shuttle Columbia was badly damaged by a suitcase-sized chunk of foam during lift-off. The foam slipped off the launch system's external tank and breached the …