The shuttle Endeavour glided to a landing at the Kennedy Space Center today, wrapping up a marathon 16-day space station construction mission and bringing Japan’s first long-duration astronaut back to Earth after four-and-a-half months in weightlessness.
Optimistic the weather will cooperate for a morning landing, entry Flight Director Bryan Lunney said Thursday NASA will only staff the Kennedy Space Center for back-to-back landing opportunities Friday in hopes of bringing the shuttle Endeavour back to Florida.
The shuttle Endeavour’s crew completed a set of pre-entry tests today and pressed ahead with work to ready the ship for landing Friday at the Kennedy Space Center.
The Endeavour astronauts tested the shuttle’s re-entry systems today before packing up for the trip back to Earth Friday to close out a 16-day space station assembly mission.
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Space station commander Gennady Padalka aborted the automated approach of an unmanned Russian Progress supply ship today after a problem of some sort left it in the wrong orientation, taking over manual control and remotely guiding the craft to a picture-perfect docking at 7:12 a.m. EDT.
NASA craft undocks as crewmembers say farewell to ISS’s resident astronauts.
The shuttle Endeavour cast off from the International Space Station Tuesday to begin the trip home.
Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Christopher Cassidy staged a 4-hour 54-minute spacewalk today, the fifth and final excursion planned for the shuttle Endeavour’s space station assembly mission.
The Endeavour astronauts prepared the shuttle for undocking from the International Space Station Tuesday after five spacewalks to attach a new experiment platform, replace aging solar array batteries and to attach spare parts to the lab’s main truss.
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