The largest payload ever delivered to the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory's pressurised module, is now operational following its installation at ...

WASHINGTON – NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-124, targeted for launch in February 2008. The flight will deliver the Pressurized Module and robotic arm of the Japanese ...

Delivery of the Japanese Kibo module to the International Space Station and the safe return of Discovery and its STS-124 crew June 14 opens the way for the final 10 missions of the shuttle program, ...

HOUSTON – Discovery’s crew was awakened at 4:02 a.m. CDT, beginning a day that will see the final deployment of the arm on the Kibo laboratory and the opening of the hatch between Kibo and the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:02 p.m. EDT Saturday to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the ...

Pieces of the largest laboratory to launch towards the International Space Station are coming together and Japan couldn’t be happier. More than two-thirds of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s ...

Senior NASA managers have set a May 31 launch date for the space shuttle Discovery, following a review of preparations for the STS-124/1J mission to deliver Japan’s Kibo laboratory module to the ...