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Last preparations for Endeavour's launch

Cape Canaveral, USA - Lift off scheduled on Saturday 13 at 11:17 am GMT

The crew of space shuttle Endeavour arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral from Houston on board of a Shuttle Training Aircraft Gulfstream II aircraft to complete last pre-flight operations. Lift off of mission STS-127 to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for Saturday 13 at 11:17 am GMT. The seven people that will be on the space shuttle are (from the left in the picture):...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1105604
Rome, Italy, 06/09/2009 18:09
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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