A small bat that attached itself to one of Space Shuttle Discovery’s fuel tanks and “apparently clung for dear life to the side of the tank while the shuttle launched,” according to ABC News. It’s ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A small bat appears to be trying tohitch a ride aboard the space shuttle Discovery from its perch on the spacecraft?sattached external tank as NASA counts down to a planned ...

A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery's external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch. NASA hoped the bat ...

The seven astronauts onboard the space shuttle Discovery had an unexpected companion during their liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center earlier this week, the US space agency said. According to NASA, ...

On a cool spring eve, March 15th, 2009, a bat, crippled and wistful, clung to the Space Shuttle Discovery as it was thrust toward the great beyond. Goodbye and godspeed, my magnificent Spacebat. At ...

A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery's external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch. NASA hoped the bat ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 18 (UPI) -- A bat seen perched on the space shuttle Discovery before it took off last weekend probably died during the spacecraft's launch, NASA says. The rodent was last ...

NASA scientists must have thought they were going batty when they noticed a tiny black speck on space shuttle Discovery‘s fuel tank. It was a bat, clinging to the orange foam for dear life. Launch ...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) -- A bat that apparently had trouble flying instead tried to hitch a ride on the space shuttle Discovery, CNN is reporting. The free tail bat was last seen clinging ...