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Space shuttle to take two days to cover 12 mile journey inside Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Oct 13: NASA space shuttle Endeavour  which normally has a speed of more than 18,000 miles per hour or Mach 25, on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, will take two full days to cover

PTI Published : Oct 13, 2012 17:48 IST, Updated : Oct 13, 2012 18:20 IST




'We don't close because we're slow. That's when you pull out a book to read,' he said.

The baby of the shuttle fleet, Endeavour replaced Challenger, which exploded during liftoff in 1986, killing seven astronauts. 

It thundered off the launch pad 25 times, orbited Earth nearly 4,700 times and racked up 123 million miles.
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