Endeavour blasts off on final mission

The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Floridaon its final voyage which will deliver a pioneering physics experiment to the ISS.

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Published 17 May 2011 6:32am

Updated 26 August 2013 9:20am

Source: Reuters

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The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday on its final voyage which will deliver a pioneering physics experiment to the International Space Station.

Endeavour roared off the launch pad at 8:56 a.m. EDT, carrying a six-member crew.

The US space agency NASA plans just one more shuttle mission this summer with sister ship Atlantis before ending the 30-year-old shuttle program.

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