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  • Endeavour lands on Earth after 16-day mission

    Space shuttle Endeavour is back on Earth.


  • American Scene

    California medical officials have revoked the license of the fertility doctor who helped "Octomom" Nadya Suleman become the mother of 14 children through repeated in vitro treatments.


  • 2nd last space shuttle lands; final on launch pad

    NASA's 30-year shuttle program inched closer to the end Wednesday, wrapping up its second-to-last mission and moving Atlantis to the launch pad for next month's final flight.


  • The space shuttle Endeavour touches down on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Wednesday, June 1, 2011, after completing her final flight. Endeavour and her crew of six astronauts wrapped up a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

    Space shuttle Endeavour completes its final flight

    Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth early Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year shuttle program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing.


  • Endeavour leaves orbit, heads to Earth for landing

    Endeavour and its crew of six zoomed toward a middle-of-the-night landing Wednesday to bring NASA's second-to-last space shuttle flight to a close.


  • Next-to-last space shuttle flight lands on Earth

    Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth early Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing.


  • An image made from NASA Television shows the space shuttle Endeavour as it does its fly-around of the International Space Station on Monday, May 30, 2011, before returning home from NASA's penultimate shuttle mission. The shuttle is viewed from the space station as it passes over Australia. (AP Photo/National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

    EDITORIAL: Exploring frontiers of science

    Given the past few years of economic hardship, it's easy to think the era of boundless opportunity that has characterized the American story is coming to an end. In times such as these, it's comforting to remember that as long as we retain our inquisitive nature, our discoveries could yield possibilities for better days ahead.


  • One shuttle leaving orbit, another en route to pad

    Endeavour and its crew of six zoomed toward a middle-of-the-night landing to bring NASA's second-to last shuttle flight to a close, as Atlantis slowly made its way to the launch pad late Tuesday for the grand finale in just five weeks.


  • Astronauts get set to land Endeavour one last time

    Their work in orbit complete, Endeavour's six astronauts on Tuesday checked the systems they need to bring NASA's second-to-last space shuttle flight to a close.


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