Nasa prepare to flight New Endeavour , and it has benn complete the test and ready to mission.Kennedy Space Middle, Florida (CNN) -- The room shuttle Endeavour landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday, completing its 25th and final mission -- the next-to-last mission for NASA's 30-year-old area shuttle system."Welcome property, Endeavour," Mission Handle in Houston stated.
The spacecraft touched down at 2:34 a.m. ET on the end of a practically 16-day mission to your International Space station."It's depressing to view her land for the last time, but she genuinely includes a excellent legacy," mentioned Cmdr. Mark Kelly right after Endeavour rolled to a cease from the darkness of a warm Florida early morning .Endeavour Nasa completes final mission Ready to flight
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The youngest in the shuttles retires after 25 area flights. In the course of 299 days in room, Endeavour orbited the earth four,671 instances and logged virtually 122.9 million miles, NASA explained. It first went into service in 1993.
Endeavour unlocked from your Global Area Station late Sunday soon after paying in excess of eleven days linked to your orbiting laboratory, wherever the astronauts set up a cosmic ray detector. The $2 billion, 15,000-pound machine is by now at operate "gathering info that may improve our understanding in the universe," Kelly mentioned.
"The retirement of Endeavour as well as the shuttle fleet won't stop the human have to investigate," Kelly stated in feedback from space which were posted on NASA's site. "It is and always will likely be a part of who we are. The united states will create other spaceships greater than these of right now. Even when these are a long time later on, they're going to nonetheless increase our information in the globe, generate an tremendous benefit to your economic system and inspire our kids."
On July 8, space shuttle Atlantis is to make NASA's final shuttle flight.
Thousands of people turned out Tuesday night time at Kennedy Area Center to look at it make the three-mile trip from your Automobile Assembly Creating for the start pad.
"Look how majestic it seems rolling out to your launch pad," mentioned astronaut Sandy Magnus to reporters. "Look at that and see what we will do when we set our minds to it."
