This is a photo of the launch of the space shuttle Endeavor, which occured May 16th, that marked this particular shuttle's last mission. Endeavor is scheduled to travel to the International Space Station and pursue a project that will detect dark matter (matter that is theorized to exist due to the presence of gravitational effects but does not emit or absorb light or radiation that is easily seen), charged antimatter (composed like regular matter but with antiparticles) and strangelets (hypothetical particles that consist of equal numbers of up, down and strange quarks) that will last a total of 14 days. The six crew members of this mission titled STS-134 are Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson and Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori. Endeavor marks the 36th mission to the International Space Station and is one of the last shuttle launches, the last being Atlantis which s scheduled for July.
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