The aim of this flight was to test the new shuttle system, to go safely up into orbit and to return to the Earth for a safe landing.

这次飞行的目的是为了测试新的航天飞机系统能否安全的进入轨道和安全的返回地球着陆。

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NASA officials cleared the flight after technicians fixed a hydrogen leak in the shuttle's fueling system, which delayed the launch from last week.

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Shortly before berthing, Endeavour performed a nine-minute back-flip, known as a rendezvous pitch manoeuvre, allowing the ISS crew to capture up to 300 photographs of the shuttle's thermal protection system.

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Even the shuttle will live on, in some sense, since the Space Launch System the unromantic name of the beefy rocket needed to loft astronauts and cargoes into high orbits or farther into the solar system will be built partly from recycled shuttle parts in an effort to save money and use familiar technology.

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And the 10, 900mAh battery is charged in part by a regenerative breaking system packed into the shuttle.

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