News conferences and other events have been set for the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-110, the 109th launch in the Shuttle program. Mission STS-110 will launch between 2 – 6 p.m.

Hear from keynote speaker Astronaut Curt Brown, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and veteran of six space shuttle missions. Brown joined NASA in 1987 and logged more than 1,383 hours in space across ...

It is not every day that I can sit down and talk with a former NASA astronaut and member of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, but that is exactly what happened when I recently met and talked ...

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