Tag: Endeavour
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Endeavour ends her flying days after stunning farewell tour
Space Shuttle Endeavour arrived in Los Angeles on Friday, following a stunning cross country tour that honored her service and left untold thousands in awe of the orbiter’s magnificence. The baby of the fleet completed her final leg, taking in some of California’s most famous landmarks, prior to touching down for the final time at…
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Endeavour leaves KSC for the final time, years before her time
The youngest orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet has departed from her home port of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for the final time, for an early retirement in California. The world famous spaceport now only has one orbiter in its care, Atlantis, with no real prospect of human launches returning until the next decade.…
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Endeavour makes her farewell rollover to the SLF in darkness
Final preparations at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) are in full swing as the NASA and United Space Alliance (USA) team gets ready to send Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour from Florida to her retirement home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California. Endeavour made her final rollover in the early hours of Friday, greeting…
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SCA arrives at KSC ahead of Endeavour’s final departure
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA 905, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Tuesday, ahead of its role of carrying Endeavour on a cross-country farewell tour. The duo will depart next Monday for a three-day tour that will take in numerous centers and facilities that have played a role in the Shuttle Program,…
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Endeavour and Atlantis bid farewell to each other at KSC
And now Endeavour has the left the building. At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA and United Space Alliance (USA) workers backed Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour out of Bay 2 of the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) for the last time on August 16th, ending over twenty years of processing work on the spaceship. Shuttle Meeting:…
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Endeavour falls silent, but her accomplishments live on
The youngest orbiter in the shuttle fleet, Endeavour, was powered down for the final time this month, as she heads into the final stages of being prepared for shipping to her final resting home in California. Endeavour was put to sleep just days prior to the one year anniversary of her final launch, STS-134, a…
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Shuttle orbiter fleet heading into their final months ahead of exhibition
With Kennedy Space Center workers towing Orbiter Atlantis on Thursday “around the corner” of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) the day after they moved Endeavour out of the same place, one might have thought it was Groundhog Day, and by coincidence it just so happened it was. Shuttle Preparing For Final Destinations: While America’s perhaps best-known…
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Endeavour and Atlantis move – Final KSC processing begins for OV-105
It’s the final time Endeavour will enter an OPF (Orbiter Processing Facility). After a storied 19 year, 25 flight career, the Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour was rolled into OPF-2 at the Kennedy Space Center this morning to undergo final outfitting, Main Propulsion System (MPS) tear down, and configuration activities ahead of her October ferry flight…
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Endeavour and Discovery swap places – New retirement dates planned
In a rare occurrence, Space Shuttle orbiters Discovery and Endeavour were purposefully visible together this morning at the Kennedy Space Center as a Shuttle shuffle took place to move Endeavour from OPF-1 to the VAB for storage and Discovery from the VAB to OPF-1 for full Transition and Retirement processing, set to culminate for the…
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OV-105 Endeavour: A Long-Standing Dream Realized
From the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program, the promise of a permanent, space-based work platform – dubbed Space Station Freedom – was a fixture within the Program. And while Space Station Freedom didn’t quite materialize as expected, what came from the fruits of those laborious development sessions provided a solid foundation for unprecedented international…