“Houston, it’s great to be home. It was a great adventure”, space shuttle Endeavour commander George Zamka radioed after completing a rare night time landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today.
Endeavour’s STS-130 mission, which made a 13-day successful trip to the International Space Station, was carrying six astronauts. It landed at Cape Canaveral at [...]
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2010
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Endeavour returns safely
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2010
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2010
Endeavour lifts off
Lighting up the early morning sky, the Endeavour space shuttle blasted off from the Cape Canaveral launch pad in Florida on its was to the International Space Station, 200 miles high.
During the lift off, some pieces of insulation form had fallen off from the fuel tank, including a narrow one-foot strip.
As Endeavour slipped into [...]