11/27/09: STS-129: Landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center.
Live coverage of the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the crew of Mission STS-129 to the International Space Station.

11/23/09: NASA's small business programs choose high tech projects for development.
NASA has selected for development 368 small business innovation projects that include research to minimize ageing of aircraft, new techniques for suppressing fires on spacecraft and advanced transmitters for deep space communications. Chosen from more than 1,600 proposals, the competitively selected awards will address agency research and technology needs. The awards are part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, and Small Business Technology Transfer, or STTR, programs. The SBIR program selected 335 proposals for negotiation of Phase 1 contracts, and the STTR program chose 33 proposals for negotiation of Phase 1 contract awards. The selected SBI

11/22/09: STS-129 and Expedition 21 crews celebrate baby Bresnik.
Atlantis crew members got a well-earned half-day off Sunday, a day that began with some exciting news from Mission Specialist Randy Bresnik to Mission Control Houston. Bresnik told the flight controllers his new daughter, Abigail Mae Bresnik, had been born at 11:04 p.m. Saturday. He said his wife Rebecca and new daughter, 6 pounds, 13 ounces and 20 inches long, were doing well. Bresnik got the news by private phone patch through mission control shortly after the crew was awakened. Preparations for Monday’s spacewalk, the third of three scheduled for Atlantis’ mission to the station, occupied some of the crew’s time. Shuttle crew members, Charles Hobaugh, Pi

11/22/09: STS-129: Satcher and Bresnik prepare spacesuits for third STS-129 spacewalk.
The six-member crew of Atlantis will have a half day to relax before getting ready for Monday’s third and final spacewalk. The crew was awakened this morning with the song “Butterfly Kisses,” by Bob Carlisle at 1:58 a.m. CST. It was selected for Mission Specialist Randy Bresnik. Later in the morning, Pilot Barry Wilmore and Mission Specialists Leland Melvin, Robert Satcher Jr. and Nicole Stott will answer reporters’ questions in interviews with WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., Bay News 9 in Tampa, Fla. and WBBM Radio in Chicago, Ill. Also planned is an opportunity for some Tennessee students to interact with Wilmore, Melvin and Stott. The educat

11/21/09: STS-129: Foreman and Bresnick complete spacewalk and add get-ahead tasks.
It’s two down and one to go for Atlantis’ spacewalkers. Mike Foreman and Randy Bresnik wound up a successful 6-hour, 8-minute outing after completing their scheduled tasks ahead of schedule and get-ahead jobs. The official end of the spacewalk was at 2:39 p.m. CST. It was the second of the three scheduled during Atlantis’ visit to the International Space Station. The start was a little later than planned, about 8:30 a.m., because a false depressurization alarm had sounded on the station at 8:53 p.m. Friday, interrupting the crews’ sleep and the spacewalkers’ campout in the Quest airlock. The spacewalkers completed the process of reducing the nitrogen in