Papular Content
Oz `Fanatics'' claim responsibility for fire prank on English team
Leeds (UK), Aug. 9 : Australian cricket fans have claimed responsibility for a hotel fire alarm that roused the Engla...
Strong explosion at tax office in Athens
Athens - A powerful home-made bomb exploded outside a tax office in central Athens early Friday, damaging nearby bui...Space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth after 17-day mission
Washington - The space shuttle Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Friday carrying a seven-mem...Congress MPs protest against hooch tragedy in Gujarat
New Delhi, July 13 : Congress Party MPs today staged a protest against hooch tragedy in Gujarat that killed at least ...Jackson’s sister says he died in doctor’s bed
London, July 12 : Michael Jackson died not in his own bedroom as first reported, but on the bed in the room of his do...
Home 
United States United States Space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth after 17-day mission
United States United States Space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth after 17-day mission
| Space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth after 17-day mission |
 |
 |
 |
| Written by Ajay Gupta |
| Friday, 31 July 2009 15:18 |
 Washington - The space shuttle Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Friday carrying a seven-member crew of US, Canadian and Japanese astronauts.The landing at 1448 GMT marked the end of the 17-day mission that saw the completion of the Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station. The Endeavour brought an external platform to the station that was installed on the Japanese Kibo laboratory during the first of the mission's five spacewalks. The porch will expose experiments to the extremities of space. (dpa) |