After two weather postponements during the weekend, skies cleared at the Kennedy Space Center and allowed NASA to successfully launch Discovery on just the second shuttle flight since the destruction of the shuttle Columbia and the deaths of seven crew ...

Rocket launches can be scrubbed for a variety of reasons, from technical issues to foreign objects. Retired Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach recalled scrubs caused by a ballpoint pen, boats, and birds. Weather, such as storms and lightning, is a ...

China's new Haolong space cargo shuttle. See it launch in this animation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta

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Retired NASA launch director Mike Leinbach launched 37 space shuttle missions and more than 240 astronauts to space.