The space shuttle Discovery blasted off Thursday on its final mission to the International Space Station. When Discovery returns in March it will become the first of NASA's three-shuttle fleet to be retired.
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SpaceX launched an unmanned space capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Wednesday. It was the first time ever a private US company has attempted to put a spacecraft into orbit and bring it safely home.
The space shuttle Atlantis ended its final space flight in Florida on Wednesday, capping a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. NASA will retire the fleet this year after two more flights by sister shuttles Discovery and Endeavour.
The space shuttle Atlantis rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday, on its last voyage and the third-to-last for the NASA shuttle programme.
The US space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida Monday. The voyage to the International Space Station is the first shuttle mission with three female crew members and the first to see four women in orbit.
The US space shuttle Endeavour has landed in Florida after a two-week mission to install a new module on the International Space Station. Four remaining US shuttle missions are planned to complete the 12-year effort to assemble the laboratory.
The US space shuttle Endeavour and a six-astronaut crew lifted off early on Monday to deliver the Tranquility module to the International Space Station.
The space shuttle Atlantis took off Monday from the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, on a mission to bring vital supplies and spare parts to the nearly-completed International Space Station before the US shuttles retire next year.
A prototype rocket designed to replace the aging US space shuttle fleet successfully took off for a two-minute test flight Wednesday after weather-related delays.
