Shuttle Endeavour cleared for landing
From Times Wire Reports
NASA cleared the space shuttle Endeavour for its return to Earth today.
“Hopefully, we’ll have acceptable weather and it will be a really good day,” commander Scott Kelly radioed from orbit.
Mission managers gave Kelly the go-ahead for the return to Cape Canaveral after engineers finished evaluating the latest laser images of the shuttle’s wings and nose and concluded there were no holes or cracks from micrometeorites or space junk.
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