Shuttle Endeavor Has Succesful Lift-off
U.S. space shuttle Endeavor blasts off to deliver a potentially revolutionary physics experiment to the International Space Station on the next-to-last flight in NASA's shuttle program.
Endeavor's 25th and final voyage is expected to reach the ISS Wednesday - carrying A $2 billion particle detector, which is designed to analyze cosmic rays for fingerprints of dark matter and other phenomena undetectable by traditional telescopes.
The mission is being led by Mark Kelly, a four-time shuttle veteran who is married to U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords - who is recovering from a Jan. 8th assassination attempt that killed six people and injured 12 others.
She was at Kennedy Space Center to watch Endeavor's launch.
NASA plans one more mission to the station, using the sister shuttle Atlantis, in July, before phasing out the shuttle program this summer.
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