The United States space shuttle Endeavour landed safely at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sunday night. Space shuttle Endeavour made 217 orbits of Earth during spanned around two weeks and covered 5.7 million mile mission.
THE UNITED States space shuttle Endeavour landed safely at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sunday night. Six astronomers including commander George Zamka were present in the space shuttle Endeavour which landed around 10:20 pm. EST. Last time Endeavour landed in 2008 in night time. This was the 23rd space shuttle landing in darkness.
According to NASA, this was Endeavour's 10th trip to the space station, the shuttle made 217 orbits of Earth during spanned around two weeks and covered 5.7 million mile mission. Six astronoutes commander Zamka, pilot Terry Virts, mission specialists Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken were the part of the space shuttle Endeavour.
NASA is planning for four more shuttle flights to complete delivery of spare parts and science experiments for a project of 16 nations which is estimated to cost $100 billion at the space station. International space station has been under construction 220 miles above Earth since 1998.