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Endeavour lands at Edwards Air Force Base
TG Daily - All News — Edwards (CA) – NASA’s Endeavour space shuttle and its crew landed on Sunday at 4:25 pm EDT at Edwards Air Force Base in California, concluding the 16-day STS-126 mission. Poor weather conditions in Florida delayed the landing twice, but Chris Ferguson, who commanded the flight, pilot Eric Boe and mission specialists Donald Pettit, Steve Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and Shane Kimbrough and flight engineer Greg Chamitoff touched down on Sunday at 4:25 pm EDT. Endeavour was originally planned to return to Kennedy Space Center, but wind rain and thunderstorms prevented two landings in Florida, which had been scheduled for 1:19 pm EDT and 2:54 pm EDT. Flight engineer Sandra Magnus, who flew to with the team to the International Space Station ...

Endeavour lands at Edwards Air Force Base
TG Daily - Trendwatch News — I think it's sad that the US can send astronauts to outer space, and yet, we can't bring complete financial relief to our own homeless and hungry... not to mention, our awful economy. While I understand the necessity for space exploration, at the cusp of the holiday season, it just makes me very sad. We hand out millions to other countries who laugh at us as they extend their hand to take the money. Concurrently, we pardon these countries from having to pay us back any of it. We must look like the biggest jackasses to other countries. And they'd be absolutely right.