Space Shuttle Launch

Space Shuttle Launch. The weather forecast was far from optimal hours before launch though — showers and thunderstorms were predicted to be present in the launch area, and NASA had said there was a 70% chance of delay. If that would have happened, NASA would have rescheduled for a Saturday and Sunday launch, Space Shuttle Launch.

Space shuttle Endeavour, which successfully ended its last mission on June 1, was to be the last aircraft in NASA’s space shuttle program, but another mission was approved in October 2010.

NASA recently released these breathtaking images from the last voyage of Endeavour following its return from space last month. Until October 2010, it was believed that the Endeavour mission would be the last space shuttle flight — now Atlantis is set to take that honor.