Endeavour is being readiedat the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a mid-June launch to the International Space Station to deliver final components for the new Japanese Kibo science laboratory, Florida Today reported.
The shuttle also would be ready, if necessary, to assist if the shuttle Atlantis were damaged next month during a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA officials said.
Endeavour last flew in November 2008, returning to Edwards Ar Force Base in California from the STS-126 mission. It returned to the Kennedy Space Center last December and had been kept in its giant high-tech garage until Friday when a 76-wheeled transporter move it a quarter-mile to High Bay 1, where it was to be hoisted by a sling into upright position.
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