Endeavour Headed For Space Station
February 8, 2010
Endeavour Headed For Space Station:Space shuttle Endeavour is rocketing toward the space station on one of the shuttle programme’s last scheduled missions.
Endeavour and its crew of six blasted off early on Monday.
The pre-dawn launch was the last one in darkness if the rest of the shuttle schedule holds. Only four more shuttle flights are left.
Endeavour is carrying a new room for the International Space Station and an observation deck. These are the last major pieces for the orbiting complex.
The shuttle is scheduled to reach the space station on Wednesday.
The latest flight was delayed a day by cloudy weather.
The Obama Administration has yet to provide specifics on what happens after the last mission this autumn.
Nasa’s back-to-the-moon Constellation programme is a casualty under the new budget plan.
