Barry “Butch” Wilmore, who flew in four different spacecrafts, will watch the mission as a spectator.

Visitors to the Shuttle Atlantis exhibition can try their hand at simulators modeling space shuttle dockings, robotic arm operations, and landings. The simulators were built to closely resemble the ...

The shuttle Atlantis docked with the international space station this afternoon, while experts assessed the impact of damage to a small region of heat shielding on the ship's tail section for a second ...