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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

2:35 a.m. Shuttle Endeavour landing (Kennedy Space Center) - June 1 Final Mission comes to end

from www. NASA .gov

Endeavour Comes Home to Kennedy Space Center


Space shuttle Endeavour landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after 248 orbits around Earth and a journey of 6,510,221 miles on STS-134.
Endeavour’s main gear touched down at 2:34:51 a.m. followed by the nose gear at 2:35:04 and wheels stop at 2:35:36.
A post-landing news conference with managers at Kennedy is expected no earlier than 4:30 a.m. on NASA Television. The participants will be Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations, Mike Moses, space shuttle launch integration manager, and Mike Leinbach, space shuttle launch director.
STS-134 was the 25th and final flight for Endeavour, which spent 299 days in space, orbited Earth 4,671 times and traveled 122,883,151 miles during its career.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/index.html

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