The MAPS instrument measured the global distribution of carbon monoxide in the lower atmosphere. More than 400 specific sites were imaged, including 19 primary sites in Brazil, Michigan, North Carolina and Central Europe. SIR-C/X-SAR was provided by the German Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency and covered about 38.5 million miles of Earth, or approximately 20% of the planet. SRL-1 included the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C, the X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) and an atmospheric instrument called Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites (MAPS). The primary payload was the Space Radar Laboratory-1 (SRL-1), located in the payload bay and operated from the ground. Landing attempts at the Kennedy Space Center primary landing site on April 19 and April 20 were waived off due to poor weather. Mission duration was 11 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 30 seconds.
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PDT at Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, California. April 9 launch occurred as scheduled with no delays. Rescheduled launch attempt on Apwas canceled due to poor weather at the Kennedy Space Center. Aplaunch attempt was scrubbed at T-27 hours to allow additional time to inspect metallic vanes in main engine high pressure oxidizer preburner pumps. Rollover to Vehicle Assembly Building – March 14, 1994
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EST, completing more than 5.7 million miles and almost 14 days in space.Tow to Orbiter Processing Facility – December 13, 1993 The previously forecasted showers remained offshore and the crew was given the “go” for deorbit burn and subsequent landing at Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility.Įndeavour touched down on Runway 15, Feb. With a difficult but successful mission passing into history, the Endeavour crew closed the hatches between the two spacecraft and prepared for their journey back to Earth. President Barack Obama, accompanied at the White House by several middle school students from across the country. The mission was highlighted with a congratulatory phone call from U.S. section, the shuttle and station crews began an extra day of joint docked operations to complete the relocation of the station’s regenerative life support system into the new Tranquility module. With greetings accomplished, crew members began transferring cargo from Endeavour’s payload bay.Īfter the last three spacewalks and the addition of the last components of the U.S. They also took up the cupola, a mini control tower attached to the Tranquility node that provides an incredible view of Earth from seven windows.Ībout two days after launch, Endeavour met up with the space station, and the hatches were opened as the orbiting outpost flew over the northwest coast of Australia. Tranquility was the name chosen from thousands of suggestions submitted by participants on NASA’s Web site, “Help Name Node 3.” module, named Tranquility, to the International Space Station. Their mission: to deliver and install the final U.S. The six STS-130 astronauts aboard Endeavour were Commander George Zamka, Pilot Terry Virts, and Mission Specialists Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, Patrick Behnken and Nicholas Patrick.
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Space shuttle Endeavour majestically lifted off into an early morning sky from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:14 a.m.