美国奋进号航天飞机发射

The American space shuttle Endeavour has lifted off for the international space station on its final mission. The blastoff was watched by Gabrielle Giffords, the US Congress woman shot in the head in January. Her husband Mark Kelly is the shuttle commander. Andy Gallagher was at the launch.

The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off into the bright morning sky as a cheer went up across Kennedy Space Center. An estimated half a million people lined beaches roads and bridges across Florida space coast to catch one final glimpse of the spacecraft. When Endeavour returns to earth, it will be sent a museum in California living only one working space shuttle. Atlantis is due to launch in July one last mission for a space program that's lasted for 30 years.

Here's report from Andy Gallagher.

That's the latest, BBC World Service News.

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