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Last lift-off of space shuttle Endeavour carried out (VIDEO)

Cape Canaveral, USA - As scheduled, today, at 8:56 EDT from Cape Canaveral

It has been carried out successfully the last lift-off of Endeavour, the penultimate of Space Shuttle Program. The departure of the shuttle, originally scheduled for 19 April and later postponed time after time (see AVIONEWS), was carried out at 08:56 EDT from 39A launch platform of Kennedy Space Center of Cape Canaveral, in California, and it took from 8 to 12 minutes to reach the designed orbit. The...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1129630
Rome, Italy, 05/16/2011 19:55
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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