There, the owner, Alan Cooper, had his curiosity aroused by the discovery of a single shoe in an attic space.

BBC: News, Sydney

This is the first spaceflight for the two Russian Cosmonauts, but Ford was at the station in 2009 on a quick jaunt piloting the Space Shuttle Discovery.

FORBES: Soyuz Launches With New Crew For Space Station

The astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery today used a computer simulator to practice landing in preparation for their planned return to Earth tomorrow.

NPR: Former Astronaut on NASA Risk Assessment

Dr Patrick's first mission was as the robotic arm operator on STS-116 - a mission of the Discovery shuttle in 2006 to continue the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).

BBC: 'UK spaceman' Nicholas Patrick honoured

Flying in space has been a lifelong dream for astronaut Jose Hernandez, Discovery's Mission Specialist 2, since he was 9 years old.

MSN: Discovery's eclectic crew is poised for space

Open Discovery Space will engage students, teachers, parents and policymakers in a first of its kind pan-European effort to address the key challenges facing the European eLearning environment.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Ultimately, Open Discovery Space will engage stakeholders in the production of new user-generated educational activities in a socially-empowered, multilingual environment and empower them with integrated access to unique eLearning resources from educational repositories around the world.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Oh, how the times have changed... its final mission saw Atlantis successfully deliver the Russian Mini-Research Module Rassvet to the ISS. She'll be prepped one last time to stand-by as a rescue ship for the upcoming (and final) missions of Endeavor and Discovery, but Atlantis' days in space are likely over.

ENGADGET: Space Shuttle Atlantis ends its run of predicting disaster for other NASA shuttles

Space Shuttle Discovery blasted into orbit yesterday with a Japanese science lab the size of a school bus in tow.

NPR: Shuttle Lifts Off with Science Lab in Tow