NASA says AMS weighs about 6,800 kilograms, consumes more than 2,000 watts of power and has 600 microprocessors. It was built in collaboration with 600 people in 56 institutions from 16 countries.Įndeavour's mission, labelled STS-134, is its last, and the second-last for NASA's space shuttle program. The mission will include four space walks, each lasting about six hours.Īstronaut Andrew Feustel will be the lead space walker, with Michael Fincke, Roberto Vittori of the European Space Agency and Greg Chamitoff also going outside the shuttle.Īccording to NASA's mission summary, the AMS is a particle physics detector, designed to search for various types of unusual matter by measuring cosmic rays.
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Greg Johnson, who is piloting the shuttle, said he won't be making any space walks, but he will be helping Kelly. A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, attached to its Falcon 9 rocket, rolls out to the pad for the Crew-8 launch scheduled for early March 1. Notable missions by Endeavour include the December 1993 trip to the Hubble Space Telescope, which was the first servicing mission there. Endeavour's first launch was on May 7, 1992. The shuttle is launching on its final mission, STS-134, on May 16, 2011. Endeavour arrived at the Kennedy Space Center's shuttle landing facility on May 7, 1991.Įndeavour is the first shuttle to be named through a national naming contest through elementary and secondary schools. Space shuttle Endeavour glistens in the sun on Launch Pad 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 28, 1987, to replace the crumbling space shuttle Challenger. - NASAs shuttle Endeavour and its seven-astronaut crew returned to EarthTuesday, landing one day early due.
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Congress authorized the construction of Endeavour on Sept.