At approximately 2:47 p.m. EST the space shuttle “Atlantis” successfully lifted off the ground from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. About two months after the shuttle’s original launch date, after which liftoff was delayed a number of times, NASA ...

A successful lift-off of the space shuttle Atlantis took place on 23:38:04 UTC on June 8th, 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis took off after a long delay due to damage from a hail storm earlier this ...

Hey, you down there in San Diego! This aerial photograph of greater San Diego was snapped from space from a window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS mission 115 to the ISS in September, 2006. The view spans ~50 ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis – This overhead image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115 was recorded by a crew member onboard the International Space Station. The cargo bay of the shuttle, which will later be used to resume the construction of ...