Endeavour Departs On Final Flight

By Mark Carreau mark.carreau@gmail.com .
HOUSTON .

Shuttle Endeavour thundered into orbit Monday morning, initiating the orbiter’s delayed final flight, a 16-day voyage to outfit the International Space Station with a $2 billion signature science platform developed to search for primordial antimatter and dark matter.

The 19-yr.-old spacecraft soared from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at 8: 56 a.m. EDT, with the 15,250-lb. ...

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