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Space Shuttle Endeavour Scheduled To Land Today |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: endeavour, space shuttle, landing |
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Scheduled To Land TodayTuesday, August 21, 2007 About Image: The Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., awaits the return of Space Shuttle Endeavour today.Image Credit: NASA TV********* Space Shuttle Endeavour and the STS-118 crew are scheduled to return home today, ending a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station. Landing is scheduled for 12:32 p.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.The seven astronauts will make final preparations this morning for landing. The payload bay doors are scheduled to be closed at 8:45 a.m. If flight controllers decide to press ahead with landing, Commander Scott Kelly and Pilot Charles Hobaugh will fire Endeavour's engines at 11:25 a.m. to begin the descent to Kennedy.If flight controllers choose to pass on the first opportunity a second one is available at the Florida spaceport. It calls for touchdown at 2:06 p.m., with the deorbit burn at 1 p.m. White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico will [ Full article ] |
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