![]() ![]() "There was a little contest that decided how we're going to name it," recalled Kelly.Įndeavour was christened through a contest initiated by Congress in response to the concern by students over the loss of Challenger. NASA's tribute art for space shuttle Endeavour depicting OV-105 and its 25 mission patches. Largely assembled from spare parts pre-fabricated during the development of Discovery and Atlantis, NASA's fifth orbiter, or OV-105, was completed in 1991. "It was decided that to build a new one would actually be more cost-effective to do, build a brand new orbiter, and that became Endeavour." "At the time the thought was, well, maybe we could modify Enterprise, which was the approach and landing test orbiter," said Kelly. ![]() Initially NASA considered retrofitting its prototype orbiter to take Challenger's place. "After the Challenger accident, Congress appropriated money to build. "Endeavour was the replacement for Challenger," Kelly recounted. "It hasn't been around as long as Discovery and Atlantis, but it has done some pretty major things," Kelly said about Endeavour during an earlier NASA interview.Įndeavour inherited its legacy from NASA's second-to-fly orbiter, which tragically was lost 73 seconds into its 10th launch in January 1986. EDT (1947 GMT) on Friday, April 29 for a two-week mission. Kelly and his five STS-134 crew members are scheduled to launch onboard Endeavour at 3:47 p.m. After 25 flights, we will hopefully land here and then Endeavour is done with its service to the country," added Kelly. "We are going to take Endeavour out for a couple more, probably about five or six million more miles. ![]()
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