Астронавты шаттла «Индевор» выполняли особенно важную задачу – устанавливали на Международной космической станции детектор стоимостью 2 млрд. долларов. После этого, трое из шести членов экипажа МКС возвратились на Землю. «Индевор» под руководством Марка Келли оставался на орбите еще несколько дней. В первых числах июня он вернулся на землю. Этот полет стал последней миссией “Индевора”.
NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Greg Chamitoff (out of frame), both STS-134 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 19-minute spacewalk, Feustel and Chamitoff retrieved long-duration materials exposure experiments and installed another, installed a light on one of the station’s rail line handcarts, made preparations for adding ammonia to a cooling loop and installed an antenna for the External Wireless Communication system.
In this image provided by NASA Astronaut Drew Feustel works in the vacuum of space during the first of four spacewalks Friday May 20, 2011 during the mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. Working early in the morning of Friday, Feustel and Astronaut Greg Chamitoff successfully installed antennas for the External Wireless Communication system, routing cables, setting up the antenna, installing handrails, and connecting power cables during this spacewalk. This was the 245th spacewalk conducted by U.S. astronauts and was Chamitoff’s first spacewalk and Feustel’s fourth. (AP Photo/NASA)
NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel (right) and Greg Chamitoff, both STS-134 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 19-minute spacewalk, Feustel and Chamitoff retrieved long-duration materials exposure experiments and installed another, installed a light on one of the station’s rail line handcarts, made preparations for adding ammonia to a cooling loop and installed an antenna for the External Wireless Communication system.
This Thursday, May 19, 2011 picture provided by NASA shows the space shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station and Italy seen in the background. (AP Photo/NASA)
One of the Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recorded this image of the space shuttle Endeavour as the two spacecraft made their relative approach on May 18, 2011. Each spacecraft was occupied by six crew members until the STS-134 astronauts entered the ISS minutes after the docking.
This image provided by NASA shows an image photographed from a shuttle training aircraft, as the space shuttle Endeavour and its six-member crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous with the International Space Station Monday May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/NASA)
Space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, blasts off, Monday, May 16, 2011, on its historic 25th and final flight from the Kennedy Space Center. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
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, Fla., on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
Photographers capture the launch of space shuttle Endeavour at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
Space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, blasts off, Monday, May 16, 2011, on its historic 25th and final flight from the Kennedy Space Center. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. The space shuttle Endeavour began a 14-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
Space shuttle Endeavour clears the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. AP Photo/ Chris O’Meara)
The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. The space shuttle Endeavour began a 14-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011. The space shuttle Endeavour began a 14-day mission to the international space station. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Joy Lewis holds her son Kaleb Lewis, 1, of Stafford, Va., as they watch lift off of Endeavour from the Rocket Garden.at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011.(AP Photo/Julie Fletcher)
Space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, sits on launch pad 39A Sunday, May 15, 2011 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Endeavour is scheduled to launch Monday morning on its final flight. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
Space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, sits on launch pad 39A Sunday, May 15, 2011 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Endeavour is scheduled to launch Monday morning on its final flight. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
Space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, astronauts from left, pilot Gregory Johnson, Roberto Vittori, European Space Agency, Commander Mark Kelly, Gregory Chamitoff, Mike Finchke and Andrew Feustel walk out, Monday, May 16, 2011 from the operations and checkout building headed to launch pad 39A. Shuttle Endeavour is cleared for launch today at 8:56am. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
Space shuttle Endeavour sits on launch pad 39A just before sunrise at the Kennedy Space Center, Monday, May 16, 2011. Endeavour is scheduled to launch at 8:56 a.m. (Tom Burton/Orlando Sentinel/MCT)
