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Live coverage: Commercial cargo craft completes space station rendezvous
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship reached the International Space Station on Wednesday, with astronaut Jeff Williams grappling the unpiloted spacecraft with the research lab's robotic arm at 6:56 a.m. EDT (1056 GMT) after an automated rendezvous.
Progress 64P: Full launch broadcast
A Russian Soyuz booster places the Progress 64P autonomous cargo ship into orbit for a two-day journey to deliver 5,300 pounds of fuel, water and supplies to the International Space Station.
Progress supply ship heads for International Space Station
A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft laden with 5,300 pounds of fuel and supplies blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, riding a Soyuz rocket smoothly into orbit on the first of two resupply launches heading for the International Space Station in the next two days.
Weather looks favorable for Falcon 9 launch and landing
Forecasters predict mostly clear skies and light winds at the surface and aloft for Monday's launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, favorable conditions for the booster's liftoff and landing at Cape Canaveral.
VideoProgress cargo craft to launch space station supplies Saturday
A Russian automated cargo craft loaded with nearly three tons of fuel, supplies, water and air is set for launch from Kazakhstan at 2141 GMT Saturday on a mission to replenish stockpiles aboard the International Space Station.
Last shuttle commander ‘back in the fight’ with Boeing
When Chris Ferguson climbed into the commander's seat of the shuttle Atlantis five years ago for the spaceship's final flight, he didn't know what turn his career would take when he returned to Earth. Now the former F-14 fighter pilot helps lead Boeing's development of the CST-100 Starliner space taxi, one of two U.S.-built commercial spacecraft selected by NASA to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
STS-135 video: Narrated flow tapes
This narrated footage shows the preparations that shuttle Atlantis and the mission payloads underwent at Kennedy Space Center for launch on STS-135 to the International Space Station.
STS-135 video: Resupply pod hoisted from Atlantis’ bay
A cargo-delivery module packed with 9,400 pounds of food, equipment and science gear departed shuttle Atlantis' payload bay on July 11, 2011 and parked at the International Space Station's doorway for unloading.
STS-135 video: Docking
America's final space shuttle arrives at the International Space Station to deliver one last massive load of goods and provisions.
STS-135 video: ‘Poetry in motion’
Watch the shuttle Atlantis' backflip, which occurred five years ago today, before docking to the International Space Station.