Today, the space shuttle Endeavour blasted off for its final trip into space, which can also be known as NASA's second-last manned shuttle mission. The launch was successful as the shuttle lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 8:56am Easter Time, headed towards the International Space Station. Upon its liftoff, there were many spectators, amounting to approximately 45,000 NASA guests, and also tens of thousands more that watched outside the space center's gates. This particular trip consists of 6 crew members, and will last for 16 days as these crew members try to install a particle physics experiment that is worth two billion US dollars. It is a telescope that is made of magnets that can seemingly find things such as antimatter and dark matter, which are some of the many things that astronomers are trying to figure out and learn more about in the universe today. This is the second-last manned shuttle mission for NASA as they have decided to reach into interplanetary travel, and they have decided to give the business of transporting crew members and cargo to the space station to private companies.In my opinion, it is great for NASA to hand this business of transporting crew and cargo the International Space Station to private businesses because this way, NASA can focus on other things that humankind does not have technology for at this moment. Through further research, I believe that there is a possibility that people will be able to travel between planets. If NASA did not abandon their current project and hand these issues of transporting crew and cargo to private businesses, they would have neither the time nor funds required to do this kind of research and improve upon the technology that we have today.
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