"..and LIFTOFF of Shuttle Endeavour: NASA's final Space Station crew compartment that brings a bay-window view to our celestial back yard!"

Endeavour lit up the night as she roared off the pad for one of the last five launches of the Shuttle program. NASA reports:

Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifts Off!

Image above: Space shuttle Endeavour roars off Launch Pad 39A on its STS-130 mission to deliver Tranquility and cupola to the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA TV

› Meet the STS-130 Crew

Endeavour's STS-130 Mission
Commander George Zamka will lead the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour. Terry Virts will serve as the pilot. Mission Specialists are Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire. Virts will be making his first trip to space.

Shuttle Endeavour and its crew will deliver to the space station a third connecting module, the Italian-built Tranquility node and the seven-windowed cupola, which will be used as a control room for robotics. The mission will feature three spacewalks.

Image: Space shuttle Endeavour launches on the STS-130 mission. Image credit: NASA TV

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