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Space Shuttle Endeavour Docks With International Space Station After Flawless Launch, Ascent From Kennedy

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Monday, November 17th, 2008

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Space Shuttle Endeavour thundered to the heavens and docked with the International Space Station to begin a major makeover of the orbiting laboratory. While the blazing, on-time launch at 7:55 p.m. ET Friday was a nighttime liftoff, it nonetheless was a lit launch -- moon-lit, that is, with a full-sized orb shining down on the scene, giving earthlings a shining view of the Earth's nearest neighbor, the destination for the successor spaceship to the shuttles, Orion-Ares. Endeavour then docked with…

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