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NASA on Friday cleared space shuttle Endeavour for liftoff in less than two weeks on the longest visit ever to the International Space Station.
Endeavour is scheduled to blast off March 11 on a 16-day mission that could be extended another day.
NASA’s new shuttle program manager, John Shannon, said it will be a long and complicated flight packed with five spacewalks and major space station pieces from Japan and Canada.
Endeavour and its seven-person crew will face only a slightly increased risk from orbital debris generated by the military’s destruction last month of a failed spy satellite, said NASA’s space operations chief, Bill Gerstenmaier.
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