Endeavour crew completes mapping mission by conserving fuel
Crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour mapped all but 80,000 square miles of the dry land between 60 degrees North latitude and 57 degrees South, carefully husbanding their fuel to collect 99.98% of the data they set out to capture on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Endeavour was set...
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