Talk:Space Shuttle Endeavour

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Could we have a smaller version of this picture? It quite dwarfs the article.  :) -- April

I couldn't find a better source for that same photo (cropping the nose off didn't strike me as photogenic!), so I replaced it with what I think is a prettier one. Note that there are gazillions of NASA-related photos at http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/ . --Brion

I noticed at the Houston Space Center a few months ago that several mission badges had Endeavour spelt Endeavor (for several missions in the 1990s). Anyone know the reasoning for this? You can confirm this by searching the term Endeavor on NASA sites. Simon

Are you sure about this? Jenkins has a few pages of reproductions of the mission patches; the only one for Endeavour where the orbiter's named seems to be STS-49, and it's spelt "Endeavour" on there. Searching on nasa.gov throws up random pages - although quite a few of them - but most seem to be in the context of a misspelling rather than an intentional use of a variant name. (If you're not aware it's spelt "strangely", you'll write it the way you're used to - and even if you are it'll often slip through). I'd bet simply on error. Shimgray 17:08, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In the Cafeteria they have mission plaques (sp?) for all the shuttle missions, and there is a period of several missions where the name is Endeavor. Is there a way to find pictures of the original mission badges? I think NASA may have gone through many of their pages correcting text; I noticed a lot of pages had Endeavor in the title bar and Endeavour in the article. I'm sure the wing has always had Endeavour on it. I will remove the trivial fact, until I can come up with more evidence. --Csnewton 02:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I do still think it's just a typo - a distressingly common one, mind you - rather than a variant name. NASA has press kits online somewhere, with mission patches, but these are all new - the pdfs note they were recreated in ~2001. However, there's also scans of the contemporary Media Resource Kits, one of which I have open in front of me right now, and the patch for STS-49 says "Endeavour"... It's quite possible that the plaques were made by someone who wasn't aware the name was spelt the "foreign" way, and they "corrected" it; I'll pass the query on, though, and see if I can find anything about it. Shimgray 17:22, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The sentence "The Space Shuttle wasn't designed to retrieve the satellite, however, which created many repair challenges." is a direct quote from http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/endeavour-info.html. It should either be reworded, removed, or cited properly so as not to be plagiarism.