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This morning, the world witnessed the safe landing of the space shuttle Endeavour, after a 16-day mission to the International Space Station. For those of us inhabiting Earth’s more western time zones, we got to watch the landing last night, with no inconvenience, other than having to divert from the Colbert Report. While I did not travel to the Kennedy Space Center for the landing and recovery of the Planetary Society’s experiment known as Shuttle LIFE, my experience was infinitely better than it was the last time that I had an experiment on a shuttle, when I did go to the Cape to attend the landing.

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NASA's shuttle Endeavour made a successful and historic launch at 8:56 a.m.

Retired astronaut Jerry Linenger spoke with Russ Mitchell on what a space shuttle mission is like including the toll it may take on the astronaut's family as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband Mark Kelly prepares to command Endeavour's final flight.

OV-105, as Space Shuttle Endeavour is designated by NASA, is due to fly into space for the final time today

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER--The shuttle Endeavour suffered a minor but potentially troublesome electrical failure that delayed its launch from Friday to Monday at the earliest. Technicians won't know for sure until they drain the external fuel tank and get access to the errant unit, a process that will take 24 hours

Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to blast off from NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A at 3:47 P.M.