CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Endeavour and its crew of six left the International Space Station and headed home to close out NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight, pausing just long enough Monday to perform a victory lap and test equipment for a future interplanetary ship. “Endeavour looks real nice out there,” space station resident Ronald Garan Jr. called out. The space station crew beamed down video of the departing shuttle, the last ever shot of Endeavour in orbit. It was a dark, solitary image against the blue, cloud-covered Earth and grew increasingly smaller. Read full article > >

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Shuttle Endeavour gone forever from space station, now headed home on final orbital journey

The final mission of the space shuttle Endeavour was a success, and the crew is now on its way back to Earth. The astronauts, led by Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, repaired an air purifier at the International Space Station and…

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Endeavour Crew Finishes Final Mission

The US space shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station and is on its way back to Earth on its final journey.

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VIDEO: Endeavour leaves space for final time

Crew from the International Space Station have started their journey back to Earth after undocking from the station and halting for photo opportunities.

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VIDEO: ISS crew begin return to Earth

The US space shuttle Endeavour arrives at the International Space Station where it will deliver a $2bn particle physics experiment.

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Endeavour docks at space station

The American shuttle Endeavour will try again on Monday to launch to the International Space Station on what will be the orbiter’s final mission.

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Endeavour fixed and ready to go

The crew on board the International Space Station has spoken about what living and working in orbit is like, 50 years to the day from the first manned spaceflight.

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VIDEO: ISS crew phone home on space anniversary

Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams talks about training for her 2006 trip to the International Space Station, where she lived for six months.

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VIDEO: Astronaut’s trip to the ISS

NASA ordered the three astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to seek shelter in an attached capsule as they fear that a small piece of debris floating dangerously close could prove disastrous. This particular piece of space junk, one of more than 12,000 bits currently orbiting Earth, is from a Chinese satellite that was destroyed back in 2007 as part of that country’s weapons testing program. Projected to pass within three miles of the ISS, the junk sparked a red threat level, the highest in NASA’s warning system. “The orbit of the space junk is extremely erratic, and there’s quite a bit of atmospheric drag on it, said NASA spokesman Josh Byerly,” according to the Associated Press. “Experts monitored the debris into the early afternoon, to determine its exact path, and later told the crew that they might not have to close themselves off in the Soyuz spacecraft. The threat level, however, remained red.” If the risk remains high, the astronauts — Russian Dmitry Kondratyev, Italian Paolo Nespoli and American Catherine Coleman — will be forced to remove the ventilation lines that are currently running between the ISS’s major modules and seal the hatches that separate individual rooms. At that point, radio channels would be switched so that the crew is in constant contact with flight teams on the ground in both Moscow and Houston. There’s no word yet from NASA on how the debris might affect the arrival of a second Soyuz spacecraft that is currently speeding toward the ISS. The spacecraft, which launched from Kazakhstan on Monday as part of Expedition 27, is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday evening. It is carrying three more crew members.

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Astronauts Ordered to Seek Shelter as Debris Threatens Space Station

Member states of the European Space Agency formally agree to the extension of operations at the International Space Station until 2020.

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Europe agrees 2020 space station

Member states of the European Space Agency formally agree to the extension of operations at the International Space Station until 2020.

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Back from the International Space Station, the crew spoke of the shuttle’s record: 39 flights covering nearly 150 million miles.

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A Bittersweet Finale for Discovery’s Last Mission

The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery got a send-off from Star Trek’s original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, as the shuttle detached from the International Space Station for the last time. “Space, the final frontier,” Shatner said in a…

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Discovery Begins Last Trip to Space

The space shuttle Discovery has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) for its final journey back to Earth.

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The last of Europe’s permanent modules is attached to the International Space Station – the Leonardo cylinder will be used as extra storage space on the 350-km high lab.

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Space station gets new store room