Space shuttle Endeavour wrapped its two-week STS-130 [1] mission to the International Space Station [2] last night, touching down at Kennedy Space Center at 03:20 GMT.

Shuttle Launch Integration Manager Mike Moses praised the crew's "outstanding job" of mating the Tranquility node [3] and seven-windowed cupola to the ISS, enthusing: "It was an outstanding mission - I can't be happier with the success we had and look forward to repeating that on our next mission."

Astronauts Bob Behnken and British-born Nicholas Patrick conducted three spacewalks during the mission, racking up a total of 18 hours, 14 minutes outside the orbiting outpost

Ther next shuttle trip to the ISS is Discovery's STS-131 [4], slated to lift off on 5 April carrying "a multi-purpose logistics module filled with science racks".

The shuttle era draws to a close with Atlantis's STS-132 [5] mission on 14 May, Endeavour's STS-134 [6] on 29 July and Discovery's STS-133 [7], scheduled for launch on 16 September. ®

Links

1. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts130/index.html
2. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
3. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/stationpayloads/tranquility.html
4. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/index.html
5. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts132/index.html
6. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts134/index.html
7. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/index.html

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