Space Shuttle Endeavour, the replacement for Space Shuttle Challenger after its explosion in 1986, and the last addition to NASA’s orbiter fleet, is set to launch this morning on its last mission. But how many of the estimated 100,000 people watching the launch in person will notice that the shuttle’s name is spelled the way the British would spell it, not the American “Endeavor”? (Even the sign-makers at NASA didn’t get the memo one time.)
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A NASA educational video, “Liftoff To Learning: Voyage of Endeavour, Then and Now” (1992), Archive.org.
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