NASA has announced the final date of departure of the second last space shuttle mission. The shuttle Endeavour will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on 29 April, carrying five astronauts on board a flight for 14 days.
The announcement came after the program management to conduct a regular overhaul. The meeting attended by NASA managers and contractors responsible for was used to examine the preparedness of staff, facilities and vehicle. Everything seems to point.
Endeavour’s payload waits patiently in his cellar. This spectrometer AMS-02, which will attempt to advance particle physics, searching for dark matter and antimatter, and ELC-3 platform, full of spare parts for the space station. The latter that will be stored outside the orbiting complex, will be vital, because when the space shuttles stop flying towards him, you can not carry certain items too bulky to other systems for transferring material into space.
During the mission that will begin at 15:37, local time in Florida, of that April 29 is made four spacewalks, the last to carry out a space shuttle astronauts. During these activities are carried out maintenance work, new components are installed and operate in the cooling system of photovoltaic equipment.
Endeavour’s five astronauts, led by Commander Mark Kelly, will arrive in Florida on April 26, at the start of the final preparations.
STS-134 mission will also Endeavour number 25 and number 36 of the shuttle toward the space station.
