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A soft night landing for the Endeavor ferry

There are 11 ferry flights left in total

Map of the shuttle's planned landing route if it lands at 02:39
Map of the shuttle's planned landing route if it lands at 02:39

02:50 The shuttle Endeavor landed safely for a night landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This flight is considered by NASA as a record flight. It included five spacewalks.

The astronauts brought to the station one part of the Japanese Kibo laboratory and a two-armed system that will help handle equipment outside the space station. Meanwhile, it turned out that the material that burned above the upper part of the shuttle was remnants of gases that were still burning from the scorching heat at the entrance to the atmosphere, and that this is something that happens on many flights but is not so visible during the day.

Now there are only ten more space shuttle missions to the International Space Station and one mission to finalize the Hubble Space Telescope.

02:44 The space shuttle landed safely, although on the ground you can see something burning on the roof of the shuttle due to the night landing. The CNN reporter claims that it is not something dangerous. We will wait a few minutes.

00:40 Space Shuttle Endeavor remains in space for at least one more orbit. She was supposed to land at 01:07. Instead, the landing at the Kennedy Space Center was delayed by an hour and a half. The reason for the postponement - clouds at Cape Canaveral.

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