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RE: STS-134

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Last Shuttle ride to ISS for ESA astronaut with 'dark matter' hunter

ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori and the five other astronauts of the STS-134 mission will be launched to the International Space Station on Space Shuttle Endeavour on 29 April to deliver a pioneering scientific experiment.
This penultimate flight of NASA's spaceplane will deliver an instrument designed to track elusive antimatter and 'dark matter' in the Universe.
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NASA Schedules News Conference About Next Space Shuttle Launch

NASA managers will hold a news conference on Tuesday, April 19, at the agency's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch. The briefing will begin after the Flight Readiness Review, or FRR, a meeting to assess preparations for shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the International Space Station.
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STS-134 mission

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STS-134 wakeup song vote

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RE: STS-134

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Experiment package hitching ride on Endeavour could reveal origin of universe

Shuttle Endeavour is being outfitted this week with a sophisticated cosmic ray detector that will probe fundamental mysteries about the origin of the universe.
Set to launch on Endeavour's 25th and final flight, the $1.5 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is headed for the International Space Station, where it will be fixed to the outpost's central truss.
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STS-134 space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to launch at 23:48 GMT, 19th April, 2011.

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STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6) is the 134th and final planned mission of the Space Shuttle Program (which began service on 12 April 1981). This flight will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and the third ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station.
The mission will also mark the final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

The unique particle physics detector known as the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will soon arrive at ESA's ESTEC facility in the Netherlands to undergo final testing in Europe prior to being shipped to the Kennedy Space Centre in the spring of 2010 and its launch to the International Space Station on the STS-134 Shuttle Endeavour mission in July 2010.
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