Tue, Jun 09, 2009
Less Than A Week To Go!
Space shuttle Endeavour is in place at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida, undergoing final preparations for
its upcoming 16-day mission to the International Space Station.
Mission STS-127 is the 32nd flight dedicated to station
construction, and the final of a series of three flights dedicated
to the assembly of the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex. The
STS-127 payload is the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed
Facility and Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section.
The 16-day mission will include five spacewalks and the
installation of two platforms outside of the Japanese module. One
platform is permanent and will serve as a type of porch for
experiments that require direct exposure to space. The other is an
experiment storage pallet that will be detached and returned with
the shuttle. During the mission, Kibo's robotic arm will exchange
three experiments from the palette to the platform. Future
experiments also can be transferred to the platform from the inside
using the laboratory’s airlock. Endeavour also will deliver a
new crew member and bring back another after more than three months
aboard the station.
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle
Endeavour is finishing up the final week of prelaunch preparations
for its upcoming STS-127 mission. The payload is secured inside
Endeavour and on Saturday the payload bay doors were closed for
flight.
The seven STS-127 astronauts went into quarantine Saturday and
was to return to Kennedy at 12:15 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 9 for
their final preps before Endeavour’s 7:17 a.m. launch time
Saturday, June 13.
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