Space Shuttle Discovery

• Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete

  At daybreak on Tuesday, the oldest of NASA's retired shuttle fleet will leave its home at Kennedy Space Center for the final time, riding on top of a modified jumbo jet. Its destination: the Smithsonian Institution's hangar outside Washington, D.C. The plane and jet will make a farewell flight over Cape Canaveral before heading north. The pair al...

• Space shuttle Discovery makes historic last landing

  The oldest and most travelled space shuttle, Discovery, landed back on Earth on Wednesday after its final space flight. It will now be kept at a museum.The shuttle cruised onto the runway at Kennedy Space Centre at 1657 GMT, wrapping up a rich, 27-year career in spaceflight that has spanned more distance and endured longer than any of the remaining...

• Space shuttle Discovery heads home to retirement

  Its decades-long mission accomplished space shuttle Discovery headed home to retirement after undocking from the International Space Station on Monday for the last time.The world's most-flown spaceship got a dramatic send-off by "Star Trek's" original Capt. Kirk."Space, the final frontier," actor William Shatner proclaimed in a pre-recorded tribute...

• Shuttle Discovery arrives at space station

  The shuttle linked up 350 kilometers above Australia.