I’m getting chills realizing that this may be the last time in my lifetime that I hear Houston launch control departments say “Go” when polled on whether to launch Atlantis. Thirty years ago, I ...

(AP) -- The weather isn't cutting NASA any breaks, not even for the last space shuttle launch.

The space shuttle era began on April 12, 1981, when Columbia became the first in NASA’s reusable spaceplane fleet to rocket into obit. Veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and rookie Bob Crippen ...