Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off for space station
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from its seaside launch pad on Friday and soared toward a Sunday rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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Two Atlantis astronauts successfully completed a spacewalk as part of an effort to add elements to the International Space Station (ISS), a NASA spokesman announced.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from its Florida home port on Thursday on a mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - With hugs and   handshakes, the shuttle Atlantis astronauts left the space   station crew on Sunday, climbed aboard their ship and fired   steering jets to begin the journey back to Earth.
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The space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the international space station early Monday for its journey back to Earth, ending a nearly nine-day visit to deliver, install and activate Europe's new orbital laboratory.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Six astronauts climbed   aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on Saturday for a last-ditch   attempt to launch a mission to resume construction of the   International Space Station.
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Space shuttle Atlantis docked with the   International Space Station 218 miles above Earth on Monday to   deliver a new pair of power-producing solar arrays for the   half-built research outpost.
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By BETH GORHAM  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CP) - Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean blasted off for space on Saturday, his broad grin as he entered the shuttle a sure sign of how thrilled he was that Atlantis was finally good to go.  The shuttle lifted off at 11:15 a.m.
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SPACE.com / CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8211; Six astronauts and their shuttle Atlantis are safely back on Earth after returning NASA and its partners on a path to complete the International Space Station (ISS).
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Space shuttle Atlantis with its crew of six glides to a safe landing early Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The shuttle's nearly flawless mission was filled with strenuous spacewalks and rigorous robotics work on the space station.
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The US space shuttle Atlantis successfully blasted off Friday from the Kennedy Space Center for a mission to the orbiting International Space Station, the first shuttle mission of 2007.
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The U.S. shuttle Atlantis was in orbit Saturday, heading for the International Space Station.
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NASA began fueling shuttle Atlantis for liftoff Thursday, even though bad weather threatened to delay the mission to add another science lab to the international space station.
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Two days after launch from Florida,  shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on  Monday, 218 miles above Earth.
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Two astronauts have begun the second of three spacewalks of the shuttle Atlantis' mission, to continue work on the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
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The space shuttle Atlantis has been successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis docked with the international space station Monday, arriving with the first addition to the orbiting space lab in more than 3 1/2 years.