
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The canister that safely transported space shuttle Endeavour's primary payload to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida heads back to its processing hangar, called the Canister Rotation Facility. Endeavour and its six-member STS-134 crew will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) and Express Logistics Carrier-3 to the International Space Station. Endeavour is targeted to lift off on its final scheduled mission April 19 at 7:48 p.m. EDT. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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March 23, 2011
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