Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space ... 6, just two days after launch, the astronauts mated Zarya with Unity, a connecting module built in the United States.

4, 1998, space shuttle Endeavour became the first shuttle to ... of foam insulation had struck the shuttle’s left wing during launch, causing critical damage that ultimately led to the disaster.

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 ...

Doug Hurley first launched to space in 2009, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-127. During launch, insulation foam from the external fuel tank fell and struck Endeavour’s heat shield ...

California Science Center crews rigged a massive external fuel tank to a giant crane early Friday and lifted it into the air while delicately placing it in vertical position as part of the eventual ...

The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the ... In December 1993 astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour performed five days of spacewalks to repair the telescope ...

It saw one crewed flight with the launch of Boeing's ill-fated Starliner spacecraft in June of 2024. July 15, 2009 - Photo by Craig Bailey/Florida Today--Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from ...

and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very ...