STS-127 landing today

vendredi 31 juillet 2009

 

Mission: STS-127, 29th station flight
Mission Number: Shuttle flight No. 127
Orbiter: Endeavour (OV-105)
Launch Date: 18:03:10 EDT/22:03:10 UT, July 15, 2009
Launch Pad: 39A
Mission Duration: 16 days
EVAs: TBA
Landing Site: primary site: Kennedy Space Center
Landing: TBA
Inclination/Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles
Primary Payload:
  • Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility (JEM-EF)



  • Kibo Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Exposed Section (ELM-ES)



  • Integrated Cargo Carrier-Vertical Light Deployable (ICC-VLD)



  • DRAGONSAT Payload - NASA GPS Demonstrator & Student Satellite with Dual Picosatellites



  • E-2 Payload - Spherical satellites designed by United States Naval Research Laboratory




  • Crew: Mission Commander: Mark L. Polansky; Pilot: Douglas G. Hurley; Mission Specialists: Christopher J. Cassidy, Thomas H. Marshburn, David A. Wolf, Julie Payette, launch: Timothy Kopra (Flight Engineer, Expedition 19), landing: Koichi Wakata (Flight Engineer, Expedition 18)
    Contingency Shuttle Crew Support Mission: STS-328 (Rescue STS-127) - Atlantis (OV-104). 
     Mission STS-127: Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts are wrapping up their mission to the International Space Station. Launch occurred on time at 6:03 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 15 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    Endeavour is due to return to Earth today with a late-morning touchdown on Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility.