Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN) -- For Space Shuttle Endeavour Commander Mark Kelly, there was splendid news leading up to the launch. His wife,
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After the shooting at Giffords' town hall meeting, it was precarious if Kelly would reside on to directive the mission. This bittersweet love fable has discerned Kelly continue training when spending nearly every evening at his wife's side.
A few months ago, ahead his wife's shooting, Kelly talked about his upcoming mission.
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As the space shuttle agenda winds down with the last fire, the Atlantis, set for this summer,
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Endeavour mission specialist Mike Fincke spent a aggregate of a annual in space on the worldwide space station, getting there and behind double aboard Russian rockets, but this will be namely his first shuttle flight.
"I think entire of us, with all the changes that are going on with our country's space program and NASA, all of us professional astronauts are seeing into our centers to see what we're going to do next," Fincke said.
Fincke doesn't want to leave NASA.
"I trust in what we are doing," he said. "It's pretty extraordinary, taking people off the planet Earth and hopefully exploring the solar system."
When mission specialist Drew Feustel works into space on the Endeavour, it will be his second shuttle flight. He aided fix the Hubble Space Telescope on his first trip into orbit.
Growing up in Detroit with a father and uncle who were mechanics served him well, Feustel said.
"I began at an early old with motorcycles and bicycles and then eventually bought my first motorcar before I was antique enough to pedal it, and took it apart in my garage," he said. "There's at fewest an or 2 projects in the garage."
He was hoping to get them done before this flight, but at the end of the day retard there was still work to do.
He'll have a lot of go to do on this mission, with four spacewalks arranged. These hikes will get the space station prepared for the time when shuttle crews can't get there. The spacewalkers will repossess experiments, setup new ones, refill tanks and lubricate portions.
Endeavour's shipment bay will carry the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. At a cost of $1.5 billion, it is the most priceless piece of equipment a space shuttle has ever carried.
The AMS is devised to occupy space particles, like anti-matter and black material, which scientists know very mini almost. The AMS will be mounted outside the space station. Scientists hope it will lead to a better knowing of how the universe began and evolved.
The two-week mission will be the end of the space road as Endeavour, built to replace the shuttle Challenger, which was lost with its troop in one outbreak during upward in 1986.
Since Endeavour's first mission in 1992,
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Endeavour and the additional orbiters have been noteworthy flying machines, pilot Gregory Johnson said.
"We have put satellites up into orbit," Johnson said. "We have done charting of the entire topography of the Earth. We have taken up the Hubble Telescope and serviced it several times. And we've built this huge space station. The traffic has done its job."
NASA recently announced that when Endeavour returns it will be made ready for its ultimate junket to a permanent family, on exhibit at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.