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NASA: Endeavour back home in Florida

Houston, Usa - Launch of space shuttle Discovery is targeted for Feb. 12, 2009

"With space shuttle Endeavour safely home at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency is closing the book on the 16-day STS-126 mission. Up next is space shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission to install the fourth set of solar arrays on the International Space Station. At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, STS-119 Mission Specialists Joseph Acaba, Steve Swanson and Richard Arnold...

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Rome, Italy, 12/15/2008 18:30
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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