STS-132 Crew Conducting First Spacewalk

At 7:54 a.m. EDT, STS-132 spacewalkers Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen switched their suits to battery…

First Spacewalk for Atlantis Crew Today

The crew of space shuttle Atlantis awoke at 3:20 a.m. EDT to the song “Alive Again”…

Atlantis Performs a Back Flip

The Expedition 23 crew snapped this imageof the underside of Atlantis' crew cabin, during a survey…

STS-132 MCC Status Report #07

Atlantis astronauts completed a 7-hour, 25-minute spacewalk Monday, installing a second antenna for high-speed Ku band…

STS-132 MCC Status Report #06

Two astronauts will venture outside their spacecraft today in the first of three planned spacewalks for…

Crews Working Together, Preparing for First Spacewalk

Three station crew members took 398 photographs of space shuttle Atlantis' heat shield on Sunday. The…

Hatches Open, Crews Begin Joint Operations

Hatches between space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station were opened at 12:18 p.m. EDT.…

Atlantis Docks with International Space Station

At 10:28 a.m. EDT, Commander Ken Ham backed space shuttle Atlantis into pressurized mating adapter #2…

Atlantis Performs Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver

At 9:27 a.m. EDT, space shuttle Atlantis began the nine-minute rendezvous pitch maneuver, or “backflip.” With…

Atlantis on Track for Docking

Commander Ken Ham and the crew of Atlantis performed the Terminal Initiation burn at 7:40 a.m.…