Endeavour Lands on Earth


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing.

Endeavour touched down on the runway a final time under the cover of darkness, just as Atlantis, the last shuttle bound for space, arrived at the launch pad for the grand finale in five weeks.

Commander Mark Kelly -- whose wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, remained behind at her rehab center in Houston -- brought Endeavour to a stop before hundreds of onlookers that included the four Atlantis astronauts who will take flight in July.

The museum-bound Endeavour, the youngest of the shuttles, logged nearly 123 million miles over 25 spaceflights.

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good job and welcome home. one more mission and we can get the shuttle out of the way and focus on going back to the moon and to Mars before the decade is out :rolleyes:

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-2-arrested-in-osceola-burglaries-20110601,0,3936855.story

Shuttle's sonic booms lead to arrests in Kissimmee burglary spree

Cars, home were targeted in Remington subdivision

Two men were arrested today, accused of breaking into several cars and a home in Kissimmee's Remington subdivision. And space shuttle Endeavour gets some of the credit.

Melvin Andrew Manning Jr., 18, and Justin Dinzey, 18, were arrested overnight, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said, and face charges of conveyance burglary. Both suspects are from St. Cloud.

Deputies responded to a call at about 2:31 a.m. today at a home on Amanda Kay Way in Kissimmee.

The victim told deputies she had been awakened by the sonic booms of Endeavour passing overhead en route to its final landing at Kennedy Space Center. When she looked outside, she saw two men inside her car, which was parked in her driveway, the Sheriff's Office said.

She then saw the pair run through her yard and get into another vehicle.

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space exploration and exploitation is exactly what humanity needs, it even helps fight crime for pete's sake

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space exploration and exploitation is exactly what humanity needs, it even helps fight crime for pete's sake

why do you think "space exploration and exploitation" help fight crime?

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it was a joke playing off of Doc's post. however, since proper space exploration and settlement beyond Earth will create an endless stream of jobs and expand our global economy by a factor of about a million within a couple of centuries, it will inevitably help fight crime, poverty and other social malaise by generating wealth and prosperity

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space exploration and exploitation is exactly what humanity needs, it even helps fight crime for pete's sake

Oh, I thought you meant we could ship the worst criminals to Mars, like they once shipped them to Australia. :laugh:

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Oh, I thought you meant we could ship the worst criminals to Mars, like they once shipped them to Australia. :laugh:

Now there is an idea........ :D

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