Shuttle completes 16 day mission
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The Space Shuttle Endeavor returned safely from a record breaking 16 day mission to the International Space Station. “Wheels stop,” were the words of Dominic L. Gorie, the commander, as the shuttle rolled to a safe stop at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
He said the end of the long mission was bittersweet. “The orbiter’s really been performing really marvelously this whole flight,” he said late Tuesday.
The shuttle delivered the first section of Japan’s large Kibo laboratory, an 18,500-pound storage compartment. The main laboratory, a unit the size of a bus, is scheduled to arrive in May aboard the shuttle Discovery. The Endeavour also ferried up a 12-foot, 3,400-pound Canadian Space Agency robot called Dextre, which is to perform maintenance outside the station.
“There really isn’t anymore a U.S. space flight program or a Russian space flight program,” Dr. Griffin, the NASA administrator said. “There is a world space flight program centered around the space station.”
Exciting times....
He said the end of the long mission was bittersweet. “The orbiter’s really been performing really marvelously this whole flight,” he said late Tuesday.
The shuttle delivered the first section of Japan’s large Kibo laboratory, an 18,500-pound storage compartment. The main laboratory, a unit the size of a bus, is scheduled to arrive in May aboard the shuttle Discovery. The Endeavour also ferried up a 12-foot, 3,400-pound Canadian Space Agency robot called Dextre, which is to perform maintenance outside the station.
“There really isn’t anymore a U.S. space flight program or a Russian space flight program,” Dr. Griffin, the NASA administrator said. “There is a world space flight program centered around the space station.”
Exciting times....
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