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Despite initially "iffy" weather reports, Endevaour was given the all-clear to land at Kennedy Space Center late last night, completing an almost two-week mission to the International Space Station where the crew installed a new node and the Cupola. The impressive seven-window addition has already offered up stunning pictures of earth.

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ISS crew member, Soichi Noguchi has been populating his Twitter stream with frequent images, each one better than the next. Be sure to check out his picture of astronaut Stevie "Ray" Robinson inside the cupola, guitar in hand and a gorgeous Earth view in the background, as well as Soichi's image of the shuttle Endeavour as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere last night.

I was inspired by last night's landing to tackle a project I've had brewing for a while: embroidering a shuttle's deorbit map.

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