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# Space shuttle Endeavour prepares for final flight
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## The space shuttle Endeavour is poised to take off on its final flight after
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wiring problems and bad weather grounded the mission last month.
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![Nasa clears Endeavour for its final flight into space][1]
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Nasa clears Endeavour for its final flight into space
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7:00AM BST 16 May 2011
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[Comments][2]
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The historic final launch will be watched by Gabrielle Giffords, the US
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congresswoman who was shot in the head by a gunman in Arizona in January. Rep
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Giffords is the wife of Mark Kelly, one of the Endeavour's crewmembers.
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* **Watch the Endeavour launch live on Telegraph.co.uk **
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"Gabrielle is excited for tomorrow's launch. Do you plan to see history in the
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making?" one of her staff tweeted. Later, they added: "Gabrielle & Mark said
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goodbye during visit before launch. Beach House made for picturesque setting."
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Nasa officials said conditions - from weather to technical issues - couldn't
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look much better for the scheduled 8:56 a.m. (1256 GMT) launch today.
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Rep Giffords, travelling on a Nasa jet with the family of pilot Gregory
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Johnson, arrived shortly after the protective structure that surrounds
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Endeavour was moved out of the way - a milestone in launch preparations that
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allows fuelling to begin.
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The conditions were far different from last month's futile launch attempt when
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the launch was delayed by storms and eventually cancelled because of an
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electrical problem.
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## Related Articles
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* [Live: Endeavour's final launch][3]
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16 May 2011
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* [Space shuttle history][4]
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24 Feb 2011
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* [Endeavour's final flight: profile of Mark Kelly][5]
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27 Apr 2011
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* [Gabrielle Giffords attends launch][6]
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16 May 2011
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* [Space shuttle launch delayed][7]
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29 Apr 2011
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* [US storms: bad weather threatens to delay Endeavour's final flight][8]
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29 Apr 2011
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Nasa is expecting slightly smaller crowds - 400,000 people instead of 750,000
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people - for the second attempt.
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The shuttle's main goal on its 16-day mission is to carry a $2 billion
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astronomy and physics experiment to the international space station.
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It will be the penultimate flight for the 30-year-old space shuttle fleet. And
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it is the final flight of the shuttle Endeavour, Nasa's youngest orbiter,
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which has flown 116.4 million miles in 24 previous flights.
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Beverly Haller of Spring Hill, Florida, and Owosso, Michigan, said she wanted
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to see Endeavour's last flight and her first shuttle launch. She worried that
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if the shuttle
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## [Space][14]
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* ### [News »][15]
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* ### [World News »][16]
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Station][25] ][26]
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### [Endeavour's final mission][26]
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[![Space Shuttle Endeavour Launches Under Command Of Astronaut Mark Kelly][27]
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][3]
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### [Live: Endeavour's final launch][3]
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[X][9] Share & bookmark
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Digg Fark LinkedIn Google Buzz StumbleUpon Y! Buzz
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[What are these?][10]
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Share:
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* [ ][9]
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* [ ][12]
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* [Tweet][13]
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