As NASA prepares for its final shuttle mission, a look at more than three decades of triumphs and tragedies Formally introduced by President Nixon on Jan. 5, 1972, the shuttle program set out ...

Endeavour, along with Discovery, Enterprise and Atlantis, became museum pieces after NASA ended its 30-year shuttle program in July ... with Russia’s Mir Space Station. CNN’s Ric Ward ...

Like photo-hungry tourists ... The images taken during the Shuttle-Mir program have been added to the larger database of photographs taken by astronauts and cosmonauts during flights around ...

In this historical photo from the ... aboard the space shuttle Atlantis look out overhead windows on the aft flight deck toward their counterparts aboard the Mir Russian space station, with ...

A biochemist by training, Whitson spent several years at Johnson Space Center and working on the science team for the space shuttle-Mir program ... a post-landing photo shoot on Sept.

American Mustache, who posted the photos, says they were given to his ... It resulted in a nearly three-year lapse in NASA's shuttle program, with the next shuttle, Discovery, taking off on ...

The publication chronicles the shuttle program from 1965 until 1982 ... that paved the way for operational missions. Many of the photos come from Pickering's personal archive, one of the world's ...

NASA says it will use Microsoft's unusual Photosynth photo presentation program to give the public a unique view of the space shuttle Endeavour as it was prepped for liftoff, set for later this week.

“We are very happy with the way the mission has gone so far,” NASA shuttle-Mir program manager Frank Culbertson said Monday. The Atlantis crew was extremely efficient in transferring ...

Americans assigned to Mission Control near Moscow during NASA’s shuttle-Mir program were also less content with the work environment than their Russian colleagues. Those are the findings of a ...

That is scheduled to be the last shuttle-Mir linkup; the first was in 1995. The program “gives us high hope for the very complex program that is coming down the road in the very near future with ...

The publication chronicles the shuttle program from 1965 until 1982 ... that paved the way for operational missions. Many of the photos come from Pickering's personal archive, one of the world's ...