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Monday, May 16, 2011  Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander's wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched.

Friday, April 29, 2011  NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit.

Friday, April 29, 2011  The final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour was supposed to take place at 2:47 Friday afternoon Central time, but NASA scrubbed the mission at the last minute.

Thursday, May 20, 2010  The president of the Adler Planetarium says the institution on Chicago's lakefront is in the running to receive one of three soon-to-be retired space shuttles.

Friday, July 31, 2009  Shuttle Endeavour, 7 astronauts return to Earth after 16-day journey to work on space station

Thursday, July 30, 2009  Astronauts launch satellite from shuttle, prep for Friday landing after two-week flight

Wednesday, July 01, 2009  NASA has filled space shuttle Endeavour's fuel tank in a test, and is finding everything to be leak-free.