With a successful launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on May 11, 2009, the seven astronauts of the STS-125 mission will be involved in five complicated and needless-to-say dangerous spacewalks to ...

As the world's eyes turn to the deployment of a new space telescope, the Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF) is shining light on the last astronauts to visit one. The foundation, which maintains the ...

Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of their Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. STS-125 was proceeding to plan and their vehicle was deemed to be in ...

HOUSTON ?Astronauts Michael Massimino and Michael Good are back inside the shuttle Atlantisafter completing today?s arduous spacewalk repair on the Hubble Telescope?sSTIS spectrograph. Clickhere for ...

May 20: The crew of Shuttle Atlantis hold a news conference on the flight deck. Front from left, Gregory Johnson, Scott Altman and Megan McArthur. Rear from left, Andrew Feustel, John Grunsfeld, ...

Astronaut Megan McArthur stores her personal belongings in a bin during a practice de-orbit burn and landing simulation at the Johnson Space Center. © Michael Soluri ...

Human hands have touched the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time. Astronauts Andrew Feustel and John Grunsfeld spent seven hours and two minutes putting the finishing touches on the telescope in ...

Due to the significant Hubble Space Telescope malfunction that occurred over the weekend affecting the storage and transmittal of science data to Earth, NASA will evaluate the investigation results ...

NASA announced on Saturday, May 23, 2009 that space shuttle Atlantis and its STS-125 crew will try to land at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday after weather stopped any Saturday tries. That same day ...

Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel began the first of five STS-125 spacewalks at 8:52 a.m. EDT. Grunsfeld is wearing a spacesuit marked with solid red stripes. He has five previous ...