{"id":32862,"date":"2011-03-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/endeavour%e2%80%99s-final-walk-down-the-aisle-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:00:00","slug":"endeavour%e2%80%99s-final-walk-down-the-aisle-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/endeavour%e2%80%99s-final-walk-down-the-aisle-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Endeavour\u2019s final walk down the aisle | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, March 10, the Space Shuttle <em>Endeavour<\/em> began its last 5 km trek to the launch pad. <\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9bf8_endeavour_finalrollout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9bf8_endeavour_finalrollout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29461\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>When it launches on April 19 (scheduled at 19:48 EDT), <em>Endeavour<\/em> will bring parts and supplies to the International Space Station, as usual, but it will also be carrying the 7 ton <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha_Magnetic_Spectrometer\">the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2<\/a>, a scientific instrument that, among many goals, will try to detect antimatter (to solve a long-standing puzzle of why so little exists in our Universe) and look for the subatomic signature of dark matter. <\/p><p>This will be <em>Endeavour&rsquo;s<\/em> final scheduled flight.<\/p><p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/Jim Grossmann<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UDdqfdVnypJodIoRUtoyCReJY9E\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9bf8_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UDdqfdVnypJodIoRUtoyCReJY9E\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9bf8_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9bf8_2oF21OTDesY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e9bf8_G3O5loiX1Xs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, March 10, the Space Shuttle Endeavour began its last 5 km trek to the launch pad. 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