Endeavour Crew Prepares For Space Station Docking

HOUSTON — The Endeavour astronauts surveyed critical heat shielding on the wings and nose of their spacecraft for launch debris impact damage on May 17, as they sped toward a docking with the International Space Station for delivery of the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS). The docking...

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