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Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011.
28 kwi 2011 · Space shuttle Endeavour has spent 19 years pushing boundaries, and its final mission will allow that legacy to live on. Among Endeavour’s missions was the first to include four spacewalks, and then the first to include five.
1 dzień temu · Endeavour, also identified by NASA as Orbiter Vehicle 105 or OV-105: Was named by students in elementary and secondary schools across the nation after a ship chartered to traverse the South Pacific in 1768. Was built to replace space shuttle Challenger and was the final orbiter to join the shuttle fleet.
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11 gru 2017 · Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle to be built, was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace Challenger, which was lost shortly...
Over the thirty-year course of the space shuttle program, the shuttles and their crews assembled parts of the International Space Station, deployed and serviced the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, repaired and re-launched satellites, sent probes to Venus and Jupiter, and more.
5 wrz 2024 · Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station.
31 lip 2009 · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 16-day journey of more than 6.5 million miles with a 10:48 a.m. EDT landing Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
