CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 19 (UPI) -- After waiting three days for a break in Florida's rainy weather, NASA flight directors gave up and diverted shuttle Endeavour to a landing site 3,000 miles to t

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 19 (UPI) --

Feature: The last time Carl Walz strapped in for a ride home on the space shuttle, he was sitting next to a recumbent Shannon Lucid, ready to assist if she suffered any immediate ill-effects upon return from her 188-day spaceflight. This week, it will be

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 17 (UPI) -- Returning U.S. space station astronauts Carl Walz and Dan Bursch face an uphill climb as their bodies re-adapt to Earth's gravity following a record-long 195-day spaceflight.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 17 (UPI) -- NASA delayed shuttle Endeavour's homecoming on Monday for at least a day due to thunderstorms and cloudy skies at the spaceship's Florida home port.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 15 (UPI) -- Shuttle Endeavour departed the International Space Station Saturday, leaving behind a repaired and upgraded crane, new equipment for experiments and a fifth cre

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 12 (UPI) -- As the shuttle Endeavour crew prepared for a final spacewalk on Thursday before leaving the International Space Station, two astronauts who have staffed the out

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 12 (UPI) -- As the shuttle Endeavour crew on Wednesday prepared for a final spacewalk and the end of their stay aboard the International Space Station, returning U.S. astronauts Dan Bursch and Carl Walz, who have been aboard the outpost since Dec. 7, broke the U.S. s

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 10 (UPI) -- A space station smoke alarm, probably set off by flying dust, interrupted an official change-of-command ceremony Monday, marking the handover of the outpost's o