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Sunday December 14, 2008 5:28 pm
Endeavor Comes Home
The Endeavor finally made it back home to NASA’s spaceport Friday. Forced to take a detour when coming home Nov. 30 because of a nasty storm at Kennedy Space Center, it ended up at California’s Edwards Air Force Base where it met up with more bad weather. The space shuttle was finally attached to the top of a modified jumbo jet to make the flight back. The trek cost a whopping $1.8 million. For that amount of money, we think it should have retired in (mostly) sunny California.
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$1.8 billion is chump change. It’s a miniscule fraction (not even 0.5%) of what it costs just to put her in space.
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The name of the ship is ‘Endeavour’, after Captain Cook’s vessel. A little journalistic accuracy wouldn’t be amiss…
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