Endeavour was the fifth and last operational orbiter built for NASA's Space Shuttle programme, constructed as a replacement for Challenger, which was lost in 1986. It was named after the ship commanded by James Cook on his first voyage of discovery. On its first mission, in May 1992, the crew carried out a daring rescue of a stranded communications satellite, Intelsat VI, in which three astronauts took part in a spacewalk together. Endeavour later flew the mission that serviced the Hubble Space Telescope for the first time and many assembly missions to the International Space Station. It made its final flight in 2011 and is now on display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Before and after
- from 29 April 1992 to 4 May 19921992 Los Angeles riots
- from 2 May 1992 to 3 May 19921992 Yugoslav People's Army column incident in Sarajevo
- from 5 May 1992 to 27 June 1997Tajikistani Civil War
- 6 May 1992Death of Marlene Dietrich
- 7 May 1992First flight of Endeavour
- 15 May 1992Founding of Collective Security Treaty Organization
- 17 May 1992Construction of Munich Airport
- 23 May 1992Lisbon Protocol
- 27 May 1992Publication of Azərbaycan marşı
More in Science & technology
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- 1950Discovery of californium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
The era
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