The space shuttle Endeavour reached home a little late, yesterday facing the partly cloudy night sky with a smooth landing, leaving the space with a sigh of relief that all is done and set out there in the International Space Station behind in orbit, equipped with a bay window observation deck.
Covering the journey of 5000 mile from space, the shuttle landed at a 21-degree angle. The touchdown time of Endeavour on the Runway was a expected 15 at the Kennedy Space Center at 10:20 p.m. Eastern time. After the safe landing on the runway at 10: 20 the space craft came to a halt after few minutes, leaving behind sweet amazing memories of space with its 6 crew members circling 217 orbits since Feb. 8.
After the landing the entire Endeavour planned to go back to Texas after the reunions with friends and family.
Now when the space craft is back on earth the engineers are planning to make research on the shuttle from its hangar to the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building.
Till the time the commercial vendors plans to develop the replacement rocket systems, there will be only four more missions left that are planned before the shuttles are retired. This will end the saga of manned crafts to space from America.
However the mission of Endeavour is to bring a new life to the project after the installation of cupola in order to bring down the images better. Now with the purpose accomplished of gluing the Tranquility and the cupola, the space station is more than 98 percent complete, with a pressurized volume of 28,947 cubic feet.