While NASA's Discovery astronauts prepare for the agency's first shuttle flight in more than two years, another orbiter crew is also training hard for its own launch — now less than three months away.

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NASA officials will host a news conference no earlier than 2 p.m. EDT, Saturday, June 17, following a two-day detailed assessment of the readiness of Space Shuttle Discovery for launch. The briefing ...

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News media covering the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-121 will have an opportunity to tour the weather forecast facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 28 ...

International Space Station (ISS) mission STS-121 ended today when Space Shuttle Discovery touched down at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida at 1314GMT (pictured below). Discovery launched on 4 July ...

At 1452GMT today Space Shuttle Discovery (pictured below from its own robotic arm's boom's camera) was to dock with the International Space Station, starting the next phase of STS-121, the 18th US ...

Just wanted to point out to everyone interested that Discovery is supposed to launch today at 3:49 pm (EDT), although it appears there might be a problem with a heater in one of the RCS thrusters, so ...