STS-116 commander Mark Polansky,pilot Bill Oefelein, NASA mission specialists Robert Curbeam, Nicholas Patrick, Joan Higginbotham, and Swedish astronautChrister Fuglesang haveexited shuttle Discovery, ...

Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-116 mission to the International Space Station is one of the most complex ever. Seven shuttle astronauts and three station astronauts will work closely with flight ...

News media are invited to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to cover activities during the terminal countdown demonstration test set for Nov. 13 to 16 in preparation for the upcoming 12-day ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – For the first time in more than four years, a NASA space shuttle — Discovery — is poised to light up the night sky in an evening launch bound for the international space station ...

The objective of the FD 8 MMT was to understand the implications of a fourth EVA to assist with retraction of the P6 array with respect to the remainder of the STS-116 mission timeline. As a result of ...

No technical issues should affect Thursday’s planned launch of Space Shuttle Discovery, NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding announced during a countdown status briefing this morning at Kennedy Space ...

While the main purpose of the STS-116 space shuttle mission is to get on with building the space station, the astronauts also will do an assortment of smaller experiments and hardware tests during ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 28, 2006 — -- NASA would like to announce Dec. 7 as the official launch date for STS-116, the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station. It had been tentatively ...

The seven STS-116 astronauts,led by veteran commander Mark Polansky, are strapped into their seats, runningthrough their pre-launch checklists and configuring the cockpit for thespacecraft’s ascent to ...