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Endeavour and OV-105
Space Shuttle Endeavour ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105 ) is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States.

Endeavour and was
* The first three-person EVA was performed on May 13, 1992, as the third EVA of STS-49, the maiden flight of Endeavour.
In April 1609 the first attempt at settlement by Europeans was made by an English expedition of 204 adventurers led by Messrs Godfrey, Hall, Lull, and Robinson, who arrived in the ships Diana, the Penelope, and the Endeavour.
HM Bark Endeavour Replica | Endeavour replica in Cooktown, Queensland harbour — anchored where the original Endeavour was beached for 7 weeks in 1770.
Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead.
Refitting the shuttle with all of the necessary equipment for it to be used in space was considered, but NASA decided to use spares constructed at the same time as Discovery and Atlantis to build Endeavour.
As the second orbiter to be constructed, yet the first able to fly into space, Columbia was roughly heavier than subsequent orbiters such as Endeavour, which were of a slightly different design, and had benefited from advances in materials technology.
The tailfin was later modified to incorporate the drag chute first used on Endeavour in 1992.
Columbia was scheduled for this mission due to Discovery being out of service for its Orbital Maintenance Down Period, and because the ISS assembly schedule could not be adhered to with only Endeavour and Atlantis.
In contrast, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour have all visited both stations at least once, as Columbia was not suited for high-inclination missions.
Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis.
Endeavour was the fifth and final spaceworthy NASA space shuttle to be built, constructed as a replacement for Challenger, which was destroyed 73 seconds after its launch on January 28, 1986.
Endeavour first flew in May 1992 on mission STS-49 and its last mission STS-134 was in May 2011.
The United States Congress authorized the construction of Endeavour in 1987 to replace Challenger, which was lost in the STS-51-L launch accident in 1986.
Endeavour was named through a national competition involving students in elementary and secondary schools.
Endeavour was the most popular entry, accounting for almost one-third of the state-level winners.
Endeavour was delivered by Rockwell International Space Transportation Systems Division in May 1991 and first launched a year later, in May 1992, on STS-49.
Endeavour was withdrawn from service for eight months in 1997 for a retrofit, including installation of a new airlock.
As it was constructed later, Endeavour was built with new hardware designed to improve and expand orbiter capabilities.
The corresponding power equipment was added to the ISS during the STS-116 station assembly mission, and Endeavour flew with SSPTS capability during STS-118.

Endeavour and built
The Endeavour was built to replace the Challenger when it was lost in January 1986.
The Endeavour was built to replace the Challenger, which was lost in January 1986.
* Caledonian Star, ( built in 1966 ), former name of the National Geographic Endeavour expedition ship
HMS Endeavour, the ship commanded by Cook on his voyage to Australia and New Zealand, was built in Whitby in 1764 by Tomas Fishburn as a coal carrier named Earl of Pembroke.
" This prohibition resulted in Chinese journalists being denied access to the launching of Space Shuttle Endeavour on the mission STS-134, which was carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer which was built in part by Chinese scientists.
After an investment with Endeavour (), Bitplane started to grow its presence in North America and built a new technology foundation for the software.
1770 is a village in Queensland, Australia, built on the site of the second landing by James Cook and the crew of HM Bark Endeavour in May 1770 ( Cook's first landing in what is now the state of Queensland ).

Endeavour and replace
After the accident, NASA attempted to aim at a more realistic shuttle flight rate: it added another orbiter, Endeavour, to the space shuttle fleet to replace Challenger, and it worked with the Department of Defense to put more satellites in orbit using expendable launch vehicles rather than the shuttle.
* OV-106-an administrative name given to the set of structural components manufactured to replace those used in the construction of Endeavour ; however, the contract for these was cancelled shortly afterwards, and they were never completed.

Endeavour and Challenger
Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour all, until 1998, bore markings consisting of the letters " USA " afore an American flag on the left wing, and the pre-1998 NASA " worm " logo afore the respective orbiter's name on the right wing.
The first Space Shuttle to fly into space was the Columbia, followed by the Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.
The first Space Shuttle to fly into space was the Columbia, followed by the Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.
Barbara Morgan, McAuliffe's backup, became a professional astronaut in January 1998 and flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-118, to the International Space Station, on August 8, 2007, aboard Endeavour, the orbiter that replaced Challenger.
* On this mission, Story Musgrave became the only person to fly on all five Space Shuttles – Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour, and Columbia.
They are now known as Discovery, Challenger, Endeavour and Voyager to reflect the school's status as a specialist science college.
The six houses are named Challenger ( purple ), Churchill ( yellow ), Endeavour ( red ), Hurricane ( green ), Invincible, ( blue ), and Spitfire ( white ).

Endeavour and using
STS-54 Shuttle mission was a Space Transportation System ( NASA Space Shuttle ) mission using orbiter Endeavour.
Pilot Kenneth D. Bowersox, using Endeavour < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s RCS system, performed two orbital maneuvers and boosted HST from a orbit to a circular orbit at 9: 14 pm EST.
Nancy Currie conducted a photo survey of Unity and Endeavour ’ s payload bay, using the shuttle ’ s robotic arm, Canadarm.
The Yellow Pages Endeavour, a highly optimized one-way proa design using a rigid wingsail lost its decade old 1993 500m record to a windsurfer in 2004.
Another experiment performed on Apollo 15 involved using the radio signal of Endeavour and was termed the Downlink bistatic radar Experiment to find the dielectric constant of the surface material.
The rivalry lead both countries to put a display of true technological demonstrators using the maximum load waterline length authorised by the rule for Endeavour II and Ranger in 1937.

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