Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Endeavour first flight 49 but Challenger last flight 51? [ ] If Endeavour replaced Challenger why did it fly before Challenger disintergrated?- see the two articles. — Preceding comment added by ( • ) 07:55, 29 May 2013 (UTC) Plagiarism [ ] Most of this article has just been lifted word for word from a NASA website ( Rockwell International proposal to build two shuttles for the price of one of the original shuttles) and needs to be changed to original content. — Preceding comment added by () 23:01, 14 October 2012 (UTC) Picture [ ] Could we have a smaller version of this picture? It quite dwarfs the article.:) I couldn't find a better source for that same photo (cropping the nose off didn't strike me as photogenic!), so I replaced it with what I think is a prettier one. Note that there are gazillions of NASA-related photos. Shaun Evans stars as the cerebral Detective Constable Morse in Endeavour, written by Inspector Lewis creator Russell Lewis. See full episodes online. Why is Endeavor the last space shuttle? Richard Martin has given a beautiful and heart-felt eulogy to Endeavor, the last space shuttle. I would just like to add that. -- I noticed at the Houston Space Center a few months ago that several mission badges had Endeavour spelt Endeavor (for several missions in the 1990s). Anyone know the reasoning for this? You can confirm this by searching the term Endeavor on NASA sites. Are you sure about this? Jenkins has a few pages of reproductions of the mission patches; the only one for Endeavour where the orbiter's named seems to be, and it's spelt 'Endeavour' on there. Searching on nasa.gov throws up random pages - although quite a few of them - but most seem to be in the context of a misspelling rather than an intentional use of a variant name. (If you're not aware it's spelt 'strangely', you'll write it the way you're used to - and even if you are it'll often slip through). I'd bet simply on error. 17:08, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) In the Cafeteria they have mission plaques (sp?) for all the shuttle missions, and there is a period of several missions where the name is Endeavor. Is there a way to find pictures of the original mission badges? I think NASA may have gone through many of their pages correcting text; I noticed a lot of pages had Endeavor in the title bar and Endeavour in the article. I'm sure the wing has always had Endeavour on it. I will remove the trivial fact, until I can come up with more evidence. -- 02:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) I do still think it's just a typo - a distressingly common one, mind you - rather than a variant name. NASA has press kits online somewhere, with mission patches, but these are all new - the pdfs note they were recreated in ~2001. However, there's also scans of the contemporary Media Resource Kits, one of which I have open in front of me right now, and the patch for STS-49 says 'Endeavour'. It's quite possible that the plaques were made by someone who wasn't aware the name was spelt the 'foreign' way, and they 'corrected' it; I'll pass the query on, though, and see if I can find anything about it. 17:22, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) Related to the question of spelling ( Endeavour vs. Endeavor), does anyone know why NASA would have chosen to spell the name of an American shuttle using British, rather than American, English? —Preceding comment added by () 17:33, 16 May 2011 (UTC) See paragraph 3 of the article: 'The orbiter is named after the British HMS Endeavour, the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery (1768–1771).[4] This is why the name is spelled in the British English manner.' / () 17:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC) Citation [ ] The sentence 'The Space Shuttle wasn't designed to retrieve the satellite, however, which created many repair challenges.'
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