...since the last time we launched Atlantis, and we're anxious to get back at it again," said NASA test director Jeff Spaulding. This time, astronauts and cosmonauts will visit a space station that is nearly double in size. The seven shuttle...

...of a countdown. And the agency winks at astronauts' carrying good-luck charms into space. NASA test director Jeff Spaulding will be one of the top men in the firing room on launch morning, and even he was wondering whether the space agency...