NASA's Astronaut crew departs for launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
STS 128 Mission Specialist, Nicole Stott, waves to the media shortly after departing the Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 28, 2009. Stott will spend the next six months on board the International Space Station. UPI/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell
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HOUSTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- NASA says it will provide television coverage of the arrival of a shipment of food, fuel and supplies at the International Space Station.
HOUSTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- NASA says astronauts Danny Olivas and Nicole Stott have completed the first spacewalk of space shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Space Shuttle Discovery left the launch pad just before midnight Friday -- four days behind schedule -- for its trip to the International Space Station.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Space shuttle Discover is tentatively scheduled to lift off early Friday after weather problems and a faulty valve scrubbed Tuesday's launch, NASA said Tuesday.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. astronaut Nicole Stott is scheduled to make her first journey into orbit to spend three months aboard the International Space Station, NASA said.
