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Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
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ESA Astronaut Roberto Vittori will be launched on 29 April aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour from Kennedy Space Centre to the International Space Station.
This STS-134 is an important assembly mission to the Space Station, delivering a state-of-the-art cosmic-ray detector AMS-02 and vital spares to the orbital outpost. The mission will be also Endeavour's last flight and mark an end of the 30-year-long era in human spaceflight. This video shows the last days of preparation of Endeavour and the training of the crew on the launch pad in Florida.