STS-127
Launch: 6:03 p.m. EDT - July 15, 2009
Landing: 10:48 a.m. EDT - July 31, 2009, Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Crew: Commander Mark L. Polansky, Pilot Douglas G. Hurley, Mission Specialists David A. Wolf, Christopher J. Cassidy, Julie Payette, Thomas H. Marshburn, Timothy L. Kopra, and Koichi Wakata
The purpose of the STS-127 mission was to complete the assembly of Japan’s Kibo laboratory, which called for five spacewalks and intricate robotics work by the shuttle and station crews.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts127-s-001
Date: February 2009
STS-127
Launch: 6:03 p.m. EDT - July 15, 2009
Landing: 10:48 a.m. EDT - July 31, 2009, Kennedy Space Center
Space Shuttle: Endeavour
Crew: Commander Mark L. Polansky, Pilot Douglas G. Hurley, Mission Specialists David A. Wolf, Christopher J. Cassidy, Julie Payette, Thomas H. Marshburn, Timothy L. Kopra, and Koichi Wakata
The purpose of the STS-127 mission was to complete the assembly of Japan’s Kibo laboratory, which called for five spacewalks and intricate robotics work by the shuttle and station crews.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts127-s-001
Date: February 2009