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Space Shuttle Completes 16 day Mission with Surprise Southern California Landing



The Space Shuttle Endeavour buzzed Southern California Sunday afternoon, with an alerting double sonic boom just before landing at Edwards Air Force base approx. 70 miles north of Santa Clarita.
Endeavour's mission saw the shuttle and its crew including Russian flight engineer Yury Lonchakov spend 16 days in space building and servicing the International Space Station (ISS), after launching from Cape Canaveral, on Veterans Day earlier this month. The American and Russian mission allowed Endeavour's crew to celebrate Thanksgiving in space.

A dramatic showdown that threatened to remove the US and its partners from the International Space Station (ISS) appears to almost over. US lawmakers eased a trade ban that will allow NASA to buy Russian space transportation services to the ISS until the US can produce their own vehicles not scheduled to launch until 2015.

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