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Endeavour launches (finally!) to space station

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The space shuttle Endeavour (Orbital Vehicle 105 [OV-105]) launched for the first time on May 1992 for its mission STS-49. It was built to replace the space shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed just 73 seconds after liftoff on its STS-51L mission on January 28, 1986.

Learn more about the history of Endeavour and the other space shuttle at Century of Flight 'Space Shuttle History'.

For more on the preparations for this launch, please read the Houston Chronicle article '500,000 gather to see launch of Endeavour.'

 

 

 

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