After a cliff-hanger countdown, the space shuttle Atlantis rockets into orbit Friday, putting on one last show for spectators jamming area roads and beaches to witness NASA's 135th and final shuttle ...

Mission STS-135 for the space shuttle Atlantis marks the end of the three-decade U.S. shuttle program and a fundamental shift in focus for NASA. After a cliff-hanger countdown, the space shuttle ...

Against grim weather odds, space shuttle Atlantis and her four-person crew made history on Friday, blasting off from the launch pad and soaring into the clouds, bound for space and the International ...

Explorers and researchers have spent thousands of years searching for the mythical Atlantis. There are plenty of myths about Atlantis that tons of folks believe, but aren't necessarily true. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, dodging bad weather and delighting ...

Nearly 1 million people, including 14 sitting members of Congress, were in and around Cape Canaveral Fla. Friday to watch Shuttle Atlantis launch toward the heavens and into the history books. After ...

With the launch scheduled for 11:26 am (1526 GMT) despite a spate of gloomy weather, the storied spacecraft will tote a quartet of US astronauts and a heavy load of supplies to restock the orbiting ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Atlantis and four astronauts rocketed into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, dodging bad weather and delighting hundreds of thousands of spectators on hand ...

The story of Atlantis, the island city that disappeared beneath the waves, has fascinated people throughout history. The Greeks believed it had been a large island situated in the Western Ocean near ...

In Harry Turtledove's latest alternate history epic, the world turns on a warped floorboard. In "Liberating Atlantis," a black man, Frederick Radcliff lives on a plantation in the southern part of the ...