Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The space shuttle Discovery arrives for its final destination at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center in 2012. The aircraft used to ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (AP) - The space shuttle Discovery has lifted off on the first shuttle flight in nearly a year, and just the second mission since the Columbia disaster. The launch was delayed ...

NASA's iconic Discovery space shuttle, which launched dozens of times from Florida's Space Coast, may not be on the move to a new location for display after all. Lawmakers in Texas have long sought to ...

Today's shuttle launch has been postponed, but two and a half years after seven astronauts died when the space Shuttle Columbia came apart on re-entry, the success of Discovery could be crucial to ...

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Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...