Aircraft re-alik-Endeavor

Aircraft re-alik-Endeavor eventually separated from the launch base in Florida, Wednesday, at 18:30 local time (Thursday dinihari) one month after the experience.

Aircraft re-alik-127 belonging to the outer body of the U.S., NASA, the mission start to finish making Japanese research laboratory, Kibo, to the station in the International, when the rocket thruster fuel padatnya ganda based on aircraft weight and send 2.04 million kilograms to Florida hazy sky.

"The weather finally cooperating, so Now is the time to fly," said Launch Director Pete Nickolenko via radio to the Endeavor crew not long before the offshore-plane base.

Aircraft re-alik, which create a pillar of smoke and bursts of fire, soar to the top of the Atlantic Ocean in a trip to outer space at the height of the station 354 kilometers above the Earth.

Two efforts to launch in June was canceled due to leakage of hydrogen fuel. Efforts third Saturday (11 / 7) ended when NASA ordered the aircraft electrical system examination re-alik, the subsequent series of clap. On Sunday (12 / 7) and Monday (13 / 7), again the effort was canceled due to the launch of the bad weather.

NASA seeks complete development outpost for the cost of 100 billion U.S. dollars project is the 16 countries at the latest 30 September 2010. Thus, the outer body that can retire the fleet re-alik and expedite the development of an aircraft can navigate to another month and the purpose of a more far from the earth.

Endeavor to bring a platform made in Japan that will be installed on the outside of the laboratory Kibo, which is worth 2.4 billion U.S. dollars, to conduct scientific experiments that require the environment of outer space.

Experiments on the platform can be installed and taken from a distance by using the robot arm, so the station crew did not need to float in outer space and take the full risk. The first part of the two Kibo is installed in the international outer space station in 2008.