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Hundreds of motorists pulled over to watch a jumbo jet hauling space shuttle Endeavour take off from Fort Worth, bound for Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The modified jet departed Thursday morning, transporting Endeavour on a piggyback ride that began Wednesday from Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Endeavour, after an interim stop at Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, flew on to the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Fort Worth to spend the night.

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A tool bag lost by astronauts working on the International Space Station should be visible from the Highlands this week, according to astronomers.
Some members of Highland Astronomical Society hope to catch a glimpse of the kit which came loose and drifted away last month.

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Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed at 1:25 p.m. PST Sunday at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing a 16-day journey of more than 6.6 million miles.
The STS-126 mission featured important repair work and prepared the International Space Station to house six crew members on long-duration missions beginning next year. The new station equipment includes a water recovery system, additional sleeping quarters, a second toilet and an exercise device. During four spacewalks, the crew serviced the station's two Solar Alpha Rotary Joints, which allow its solar arrays to track the sun, and installed new hardware that will support future assembly missions.

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The space shuttle Endeavour crew is expected to complete its mission with a landing at 1:19 p.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 30

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Space shuttle undocks from space station
Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven departed the international space station on Friday, ending a 12-day visit that left the orbiting complex with more modern and deluxe living quarters for bigger crews.
Endeavour pulled away as the two spacecraft soared 220 miles above the Pacific, just east of Taiwan.

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Astronauts aboard the international space station and the newly arrived shuttle Endeavour planned Monday to start unpacking a new toilet and a contraption that purifies urine and sweat into drinkable water at the orbiting outpost.

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Endeavour docked with the ISS at 22:01 GMT, a few minutes earlier than scheduled, as the spacecraft passed over India.

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Space shuttle Endeavour linked with the international space station on Sunday, kicking off a huge home makeover that will allow twice as many astronauts to live up there beginning next year.
Commander Christopher Ferguson guided the shuttle to a smooth docking as the two spacecraft soared 212 miles above India. His ship's radar worked just fine, despite earlier trouble with the antenna.

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Endeavour passes inspection
Endeavour astronauts today are preparing to dock with the International Space Station, after intensive inspections Saturday of the shuttle's heat shields for damage that could have occurred during a moonlit launch from Kennedy Space Center.
The seven-person crew also investigated the possibility that a small strip of white insulating blanket that may have torn away from the upper-left side of the orbiter about 30 seconds after liftoff Friday.
But the close-up images captured using a robotic shuttle arm and boom extension equipped with cameras and laser sensors did not immediately reveal damage.

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Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts unfurled a 100-foot, laser-tipped pole and surveyed their ship for any launch damage Saturday while drawing ever closer to their destination, the international space station.
At least two pieces of debris were spotted Friday night in launch photos, and engineers were poring over the images to determine whether the debris - or anything else - hit Endeavour.

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