Endeavour blasts off on its final flight
Monday, May 16, 2011 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
The space shuttle's commander is Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was at the space center for the launch. After this flight, Endeavour comes to L.A.'s Exposition Park.Endeavour blasted off on NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit Monday morning as the mission commander's wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands.