Spacecraft “Endeavour” with six astronauts set sail from the International Space Station (ISS). This was reported in NASA.

According to “The View” , former coordinator of the NASA Public Affairs at the Mission Control Center outside Moscow Sergey Puzanov said that after undocking from the ISS vehicle “Endeavour” flew over the station for its photography. “Then use the bar with cameras astronauts otsnimut liners tile leading edges of wings and nose of the ship to identify their possible damage micrometeorites in finding the shuttle at the station” – added S. Puzanov.

landing ship “Endeavour” at Cape Canaveral in Florida (USA) is scheduled for 5:16 am Kyiv time on February 22. In the crew of space shuttle “Endeavour” includes captain George Castle, the pilot Terry Verts and mission specialist Catherine Hayer, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken.

in the flight program “shuttle” meant delivery and installation at the station node module “Tranquility” and review the module “Cudeapola”, the three EVAs, repair and restoration work of the regeneration of water from the urine on the American segment of the ISS and the transfer germoadaptera “PMA-3″ from one node to another. All flight objectives were met.

After the departure of the ship “Endeavour” on the ISS remained the crew keep watch 22-second main mission of the commander of American Jeffrey Williams and four flight engineers: Russians Maxim Suraeva and Oleg Kotov, Japanese Soichi Noguchi and American Timothy Creamer.

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