NASA Shuttle Launches (70 images)

NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from Launch Complex 39A for mission STS-118 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on August 8, 2007. The Endeavour's seven person crew, including teacher/astronaut Barbara Morgan, is on an 11 day service mission to the International Space Station. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down at 9:06 AM on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 20, 2008. Atlantis and her crew completed a thirteen day mission, carrying the European Space Agency's Columbus module to the International Space Station. (UPI Photo/Joe Marino-Bill Cantrell)

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off from Launch Pad 39B on mission STS-115, a construction mission to the International Space Station, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on September 9, 2006. Atlantis finally launched on the sixth try after weather and mechanical problems kept the shuttle grounded since August 27. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)

NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from Launch Complex 39A for mission STS-118 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on August 8, 2007. The Endeavour's seven person crew, including teacher/astronaut Barbara Morgan, is on an 11 day service mission to the International Space Station. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)