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Space Shuttle Endeavour Carried Back To Kennedy On 747 Plane

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Monday, December 15th, 2008

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Space Shuttle Endeavour, having earlier completed a 16-day mission that improved the International Space Station, finally made it back home to Kennedy Space Center, riding piggyback atop a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Ordinarily, Endeavour would have returned directly to Kennedy on its own, coming through reentry and back to a landing as a giant unpowered glider. But bad weather at Kennedy forced the space shuttle orbiter vehicle to divert its landing to the Dryden center at Edwards Air Force…

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