STS-127/Endeavour
Launch Date: July 11
Launch Time: 7:39 p.m. EDT
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
Phone: 321.867.5000
Email: Public Inquiries
The first flight test, called Ares I-X, will bring NASA one step closer to its exploration goals.
Launch Date: August 30 (No earlier than)
Japan's Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module
Aboard Endeavour
Mission STS-127
Take one space shuttle, seven highly trained astronauts, tons of equipment, and one legendary orbiting telescope and you have the 5.3 million-mile odyssey that was Hubble's final servicing mission.
NASA welcomed artists as part of a program to give a different perspective to its technical and scientific operations and facilities.
Tool designers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center had to invent several new instruments for the STS-125 mission.