Shuttle Atlantis glides home after station visit

Discovery glides to smooth space station docking
Shuttle commander Rick Sturckow, forced to use coarse thrusters instead of preferred steering jets, guides Discovery to a smooth docking with the International Space Station on Sunday.

Soyuz docks with space station, doubles its crew
The International Space Station now has six full-time residents in a major milestone for the costly program. Time available for scientific research is expected to more than triple.

Russian Soyuz rocket prepped for milestone launch
A rocket is set for launch Wednesday from Kazakhstan in a milestone mission to boost the International Space Station's crew size to six full-time residents.

Shuttle Atlantis glides to smooth California landing
The shuttle Atlantis, running two days late because of bad weather in Florida, glided to a California landing Sunday to close out a successful Hubble Space Telescope repair mission.

Bottoms up: Space station crew samples recycled urine
International Space Station crew toasts flight controllers and engineers Wednesday, sipping purified sweat and urine from the lab's new water recycling system.