Containing the six astronauts in the U.S., "Endeavor" 21 space shuttle safely back to earth, ending a 14-day trip to the International Space Station construction.
U.S. Eastern Standard Time at 22:20 on the 21st (Beijing time at 11:20 on the 22nd), "Endeavor" was a smooth landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA Mission Control Center in the "Endeavor" was the astronauts after landing, said: "Welcome home and congratulations on your successful completion of the task." "I am pleased to go home," "Endeavor" was commander George Chan mkata response Road.
"Endeavor" before landing the space shuttle, the local has been cloudy and rainy, so worried about the ground control center. Fortunately, as night fell, the weather improved, the shuttle landed smoothly. In the United States has carried out 130 space shuttle flight, this is the first of 23 night-time landings.
"Endeavor" was on the 8th of this month from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch on the 10th, after docking with the international space station, the astronauts conducted three spacewalks for the Space Station to install a "quiet" was the node module and a user-friendly astronauts on Earth and other celestial bodies and spacecraft panoramic observation observatory.
