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Monday, May 16, 2011

Endeavour blasts off on its final flight

The space shuttle's commander is Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is at the space center for the launch. After this flight, Endeavour comes to L.A.'s Exposition Park.

Endeavour crew

Center. (Pierre Ducharme / Reuters / May 16, 2011)
NASA fueled Endeavour for a Monday morning liftoff on the next-to-last flight of the space shuttle era, confident an electrical problem that grounded the mission more than two weeks ago had been fixed.

The mission commander is Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of wounded Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who's back for the second launch attempt.

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