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Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew landed safely on 30 November, 2225 UTC at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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The space shuttle Endeavour crew is expected to complete its mission to the International Space Station with a landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1819 UTC on 30 November. This will conclude a 16-day flight, 11 of which were spent docked to the station.

The Proton M launch vehicle that will launch the next trio of GLONASS-M satellites was delivered by rail to Tyura Tam station in Kazakhstan from Khrunichev Space Center’s manufacturing facility in Moscow, Russia.

Rocket: Soyuz-U; Payload: Progress M-01M (Progress P31); Date: 26 November 2008, 1238 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The transport vessel was successfully placed in its target orbit.

Kosmotras is preparing to launch the Ukrainian Sich-2 remote sensing satellite in late 2009 or early 2010 aboard a Dnepr rocket – more than two years later than originally planned.

The long-delayed launch of the United States’ next classified military satellite has been rescheduled again.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) successfully conducted a full mission-length firing of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle’s first stage at its McGregor Test Facility in Texas, on 22 November. Not everybody was as enthusiastic about it as the company, though.