Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Space captain's joy as 500,000 watch Endeavour blast off for final mission - 16th May 2011

Endeavour’s commander urged America to continue to ‘reach for the stars’ today as he led the orbiter on its 25th and final journey into space.

U.S. Navy Captain Mark Kelly and his five crew blasted off from Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, to tears, cheers and cries of ‘Go Endeavour’ from an estimated half a million viewers who watched from the ground as it roared into the sky above a giant ball of flame before disappearing into clouds. Read More









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