On April 14, 1981, the first NASA space shuttle mission came to a successful end when the space shuttle Colombia returned to Earth following a two-day test flight. On Friday, July 31, 2009, the crew ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Thursday, June 21, the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to complete a 13-day mission to the International Space Station with a landing in Florida. The STS-117 mission ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The space shuttle Discovery crew is scheduled to complete a 15-day mission to the International Space Station with a landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Wednesday, ...

While NASA was looking for an alternative to the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday, the folks in North may have recalled that in the 1990s, North Auxiliary Airfield was a possible shuttle landing site.