The space shuttle Discovery is on track for a Wednesday landing at Kennedy Space Center, currently scheduled for 11:57am Eastern. The crew kicked off Discovery's last full day in space Tuesday at ...

NASA’s two crawler transporter vehicles soon will sport new “shoes.” A $10 million project to replace the 456 tread belt shoes, weighing more than one ton each, on both crawlers at Kennedy ...

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.

The five-metre extension can be folded onto the side of the main boom for transport to save space. The crawler tracks’ drives can be controlled via a joystick by the operator and they provide up to ...