Final Mission for Endeavor By Hope Wilkos, Writer/Blogger
As Shuttle Discovery is being retired to the museum, Space Shuttle Endeavor is on its way to the launch pad. The final journey and mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida is scheduled for April 19th at 7:48 PM barring any unforseen difficulties such as bad weather.
This mission will be called STS-134 and will last for 14 days. The Commander in Chief will be Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was shot at the Arizona Shopping Mall in January. Congresswoman Giffords is progressing so well that she plans to attend the lift-off and give her husband moral support.
After this space mission, Atlantis will be the final shuttle launch before the historic space program is retied. This is all dependent on receipt of funding from Congress. If everything goes as planned, takeoff will be June 28th.
It seems like only yesterday that the United States was landing on the moon and ‘taking one small step for mankind’ and now we are retiring the space program and it will go down as a chapter in the history books.
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