endeavour

  • View of the FGB/Zarya module during the approach of the STS-88 orbiter Endeavour. The STS-88 crew had the Unity module in the Shuttle’s payload bay. The crew brought the two modules together – the first on-orbit assembly step in creating the International Space Station. Image #: sts088-305-028 Date: December 6, 1998 via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/NZK25W

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  • View of the FGB/Zarya module during the approach of the STS-88 orbiter Endeavour. The STS-88 crew had the Unity module in the Shuttle’s payload bay. The crew brought the two modules together – the first on-orbit assembly step in creating the International Space Station. Image #: sts088-305-028 Date: December 6, 1998 via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/NZK25W

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  • The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Launch Pad 39B with a crew of six NASA astronauts, a Swiss mission specialist and a variety of special tools aboard. Launch occurred at 4:27:00 a.m. (EST). Image #: sts061-s-090 Date: December 2, 1993 via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/P9MQ77

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  • The Space Shuttle Endeavour is backdropped over Cook Strait, New Zealand as it approaches the International Space Station (ISS) during STS-113 rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 4:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on November 25, 2002. The Port One (P1) truss, which was later to be attached to the station and outfitted during three…

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  • Against a black night sky, the Space Shuttle Endeavour heads toward Earth orbit and a scheduled link-up with the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39 occurred at 7:49:47 p.m. (EST), November 23, 2002. The launch was the 19th for Endeavour, and the 112th flight in the Shuttle program.…

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  • Against a black night sky, the Space Shuttle Endeavour heads toward Earth orbit and a scheduled link-up with the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39 occurred at 7:49:47 p.m. (EST), November 23, 2002. The launch was the 19th for Endeavour, and the 112th flight in the Shuttle program.…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt