The communications satellite successfully entered geosynchronous orbit and started service in time for the 1992 Summer Olympics. Endeavour was also the shuttle that ferried the first Hubble Space ...

The space shuttle Endeavour was lifted into its final position ... on the launch pad for any of Endeavour’s 25 missions into orbit. The shuttle, having been on display since 2012 in a horizontal ...

boosting the satellite into its intended geosynchronous orbit. Three years after Hubble launched with faulty optics, NASA launched space shuttle Endeavour on the landmark STS-61 mission on Dec.

In December 1993 astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour performed five days of spacewalks to repair the telescope in orbit some 353 miles (569 kilometers) above the Earth. The repair worked ...

The orbiters remain the only winged spacecraft to have made multiple flights into orbit ... Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of ...

At that point, the vehicle is to de-orbit and execute a safe return to Earth, likely at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility Runway.

Behnken returned to space in 2010, again aboard Endeavour ... the final flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the last crewed launch to orbit from the United States until Demo-2 on Saturday.

Endeavour was sat on Pad 39B, ready to launch at short notice on an ambitious rescue mission. This rescue mission was called STS-400. When the Space Shuttle fleet returned to action after the loss ...

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 13, 2012) – A Toyota Tundra half-ton pickup truck without any special modifications successfully towed the 150,000 pound space shuttle Endeavour across a bridge spanning the ...

It will be utilized for carrying payloads to orbit, especially National Security ... July 15, 2009 - Photo by Craig Bailey/Florida Today--Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space ...