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NASA Okays Monday Endeavor Launch

   VOA News  May 15, 2011
   Space shuttle Endeavour is seen at Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center
   in Cape Canaveral, Florida

Photo: AP

   Space shuttle Endeavour is seen at Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center
   in Cape Canaveral, Florida

   NASA has approved Monday's launch attempt for the space shuttle
   Endeavour in Florida after checking repairs on electrical fuses that
   cancelled last month's launch attempt.
   It is Endeavour's final voyage and the next to last in NASA's 30 year
   space shuttle program.
   The flight to the International Space Station is commanded by astronaut
   Mark Kelley, who is the husband of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle
   Giffords, who was critically wounded during a shooting rampage in the
   western state of Arizona in January.
   NASA says Giffords is expected to attend Monday's launch (0856 EDT,
   1256 UTC) at the Kennedy Space Center with an expected 500,000 other
   spectators.
   Kelly and the rest of the five member Endeavour crew will conduct space
   walks, deliver parts and physics equipment and do some maintenance on
   the space station during the 16-day flight.
   NASA closes out its shuttle program with the scheduled launch of
   Atlantis in July.

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