Up to eight space crafts can be connected to the ISS simultaneously. When a shuttle needs to dock with the space station, it's not as simple as parking a car. The shuttle's pilot will position the ...

Discovery'sSTS-121astronaut crew is set to arrive at the space station ... can dock at the ISS, the Expedition 13 crew must complete aphotographic survey of the shuttle's tile-lined belly.

SpaceX released a docking simulator ... which intends to bring ISS astronaut launches back to US soil for the first time since the end of the space shuttle era in 2011. The real control system ...

Welcome to the International Space Station for the last time ... "We have had an absolutely outstanding rendezvous and docking today," shuttle flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho said in a briefing ...

The space shuttle Discovery docked to the International ... Mission Control and the International Space Station. After docking, ISS crew members Pavel Vinogradov and Jeff Williams shook hands ...

The glitch that kept a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station last fall ... between the Soyuz-Progress docking port and the shuttle port? Soyuz, Progress, and ATVs use the ...

Carrying a Russian docking module and critical spare parts, the shuttle hooks up with the International Space Station on Sunday to wrap up a two-day orbital chase. Bill Harwood has been covering ...

The ISS, typically at an altitude of about 250 miles and traveling 17,500 mph, was flying over West Africa at the time of docking ... after the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.

After reaching low Earth orbit, the shuttle took a two-day trip before docking with the International Space Station and the crew took time to inspect the shuttle's heat shielding for damage.