Endeavour Soars on 2nd-to-Last Space Shuttle Trip

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"Good stuff, good stuff," Giffords was quoted as saying by her chief of staff as Endeavour took flight for the final time. Husband Mark Kelly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the shuttle's skipper,http://www.awfowskiepttk.fora.pl/dyzury-wszystkich-wykladowcow-godziny-dyzurow-oraz-nr-pokoi,15/tech-stocks-fall-yahoo-alibaba-seek-resolution,97034.html#97570,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], had red tulips presented to her afterward. She wore his wedding ring on a silver chain while he carried hers with him.
NASA is winding down its 30-year-old shuttle program before embarking on something new. The liftoff generated the kind of excitement seldom seen on Florida's Space Coast on such a grand scale — despite a delay of more than two weeks from the original launch date because of an electrical problem.
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Launch manager Mike Moses apologized for the fleeting glimpse. "The view wasn't the best," he said.
Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander's wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands.