Led by commander Mark Polansky, the astronauts will run through emergency escapes from the launch pad, practise landing on Kennedy Space Center's runway and learn how to put out fires on the shuttle.

NASA filled the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen Friday to try and... NASA filled the space shuttle Discovery's external fuel ...

Seen in this historic photo from the U.S. space agency, the first Space Shuttle External Tank, or the Main Propulsion Test Article, entered NASA history on September 9th, 1977, when it rolled off of ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - The modified external tank for the next shuttle mission is starting a "zero margin" processing flow here while engineers assess issues, such as those with engine cutoff ...

NASA says it will try to launch Atlantis on the first space shuttle mission of the year in early June, almost three months later than originally planned, so that technicians can finish repairing its ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA resolved lingering concerns about lines connecting the external fuel tank to Atlantis on Wednesday and moved ahead with preparations for the first space shuttle launch of ...

The Space Shuttle is composed of three primary components: the Orbiter Vehicle, Solid Rocket Boosters, and the External Tank.