The wheels of Space Shuttle Endeavour touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning at 06:35 GMT (08:35 CEST) after a 16-day mission that added a pioneering experiment to the International Space Station. *** Note 3: Flights with the orbiter attached to the SCA for the duration, but both crewed and powered to test crew procedures and orbiter systems. Shuttle STS-134 back from enhancing Space Station. ** Note 2: The durations listed count only the orbiter free-flight time, and not total time aloft along with airborne time atop of the 747 SCA. These were atmospheric only, non-spaceflight tests from a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, both with the orbiter attached and for a series of drop-test flights. * Note 1: In this year, Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) were accomplished. STS-61-A in 1985 is the only flight to have both launched and landed with a crew of eight, and STS-71 in 1995 is the only other flight to have landed with a crew of eight. Only two flights have carried more than seven crew members for either launch or landing. They did not have specific crew roles, but are listed in the Payload Specialist columns for reasons of space. Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly Mark Kelly is near Kibos ceiling in upper right. The real countdown for Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for Friday afternoon, April 29, 2011. English: The six member crew for space shuttle Endeavours final mission poses for an STS-134 in-flight crew portrait in the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agencys Kibo lab on the International Space Station. ISS = Launched to be part of the crew of the International Space Station. The astronauts of STS-134 came to Kennedy Space Center recently for countdown rehearsal.Mir = Launched to be part of the crew of the Mir Space Station.This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews, arranged in chronological order by Space Shuttle missions.
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