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Endeavour: the last shuttle to the Space Station to hunt to the "Dark matter"

Cape Canaveral, USA - The return is for the first June

The shuttle Endeavour en route to his final mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the STS-134, will dock at 10:15 GMT of tomorrow. ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Roberto Vittori and the 5 crew members will spend 16 days in space to deliver an highly sophisticated European instrument, designed to identify the cosmic fingerprints left by antimatter and ‘dark matter’ in the Universe: the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1129667
Rome, Italy, 05/17/2011 13:49
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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