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Endeavour starts mission with night launch
Submitted by Special on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 9:31am.
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Endeavour, NASA’s youngest space shuttle, became the final orbiter to lift off at night with its launch to the the International Space Station this morning.
Built as a replacement after the shuttle Challenger was lost on launch in 1986, Endeavour arched into space through breaks in the predawn cloud cover over Kennedy Space Center that forced a 24-hour delay Saturday night. In its payload bay is the last European pressurized module for the ISS
Liftoff for the STS-130 mission came at 4:14 a.m. EST, and Endeavour’s six-member crew reached space a little more than eight minutes later after an ascent up the East Coast of the U.S. as it streaked north toward the station’s high-inclination orbit.
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