Shuttle Countdown Begins
<i> Associated Press</i>
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The countdown began Thursday for a weekend liftoff of the space shuttle Endeavour on a science mission. The six astronauts will release two satellites and retrieve one of them during the 10-day mission.
One satellite contains an experimental antenna that will be inflated in orbit to roughly the size of a tennis court.
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