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The shuttle Endeavour closed out a grueling space station assembly mission with a smooth Florida landing on Friday.

A potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak cropped up during the fueling of space shuttle Endeavour today and forced NASA to postpone the launch by at least four days.

The fully staffed International Space Station is about to get even more crowded when seven shuttle astronauts join the six men already aboard, boosting the number of people aboard to 13 - its highest population ever.

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis finally made it home after a voyage of more than 5 million miles.

Weather conditions forced NASA to wave off a landing attempt for space shuttle Atlantis scheduled for 9:16 a.m. ET Saturday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the space agency said.

The Atlantis will have another chance to land at 11:39 a.m. If the weather does not improve, NASA will try again Saturday.

Fueling has started on space shuttle Atlantis for its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA engineers announced they have set 3:13 p.m. Saturday as the time for the space shuttle to land at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery because of a gas leak. The leak of gaseous hydrogen occurred as the launch team was filling the external fuel tank for liftoff Wednesday night. The seven astronauts had yet to board the spaceship.