Close-up of the last flight of the shuttle Endeavor

Yesterday (May 16), the US successfully launched space shuttle Endeavor on the international space station (ISS) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

According to NASA, this ship was launched at 19h56p (Hanoi time). It will go into orbit tomorrow (May 18) and will return on June 1 after completing the mission.

The ship carried six veteran astronauts and physical experiment equipment, including a spectrometer to analyze cosmic rays to find out the phenomena that previous telescopes had not yet discovered. OK.

Besides, in this last flight, Endeavor also brought up the International Space Station a $ 2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ( Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ) detector.

This is a particle physics research device built and tested for mounting on the International Space Station to search for unusual forms of matter through radiation from the universe, including foreign matter and objects. dark matter, antimatter.

This is the 25th flight and also the last flight to this space shuttle's orbit. After this flight Endeavor will be brought into a museum in California, USA.

Earlier, the launch of Endeavor on April 29 was postponed due to technical problems. This is the last closest flight in the US shuttle program. In July, the US Space Agency (NASA) will launch an additional Atlantis ship with a 1-year supply of supplies for the ISS station before ending the space shuttle program this summer.

Watch the shuttle launcher clip Endeavor: