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STS-127 Mission Information
Image above: Front row, Commander Mark Polansky (right) and Pilot Doug Hurley. Back row (left to right), astronauts Dave Wolf, Christopher Cassidy, Canadian Space Agency's Julie Payette, Tom Marshburn and Tim Kopra, all mission specialists. Kopra joined Expedition 20 as flight engineer after launching to the International Space Station with the STS-127 crew. Image credit: NASA
Mark L. Polansky commanded the shuttle Endeavour for STS-127. Douglas G. Hurley served as the pilot. Mission specialists were Christopher J. Cassidy, Thomas H. Marshburn, David A. Wolf and Julie Payette, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut.
The mission delivered Timothy L. Kopra to the station as a flight engineer and science officer and returned Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata to Earth. Hurley, Cassidy, Marshburn and Kopra made their first trips to space.
Endeavour set sail on its 23rd mission with the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section. The facility provides a type of "front porch" for experiments in the exposed environment, and a robotic arm that is attached to the Kibo Pressurized Module and is used to position experiments outside the station. The mission included five spacewalks.
STS-127 was the 29th shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
+ Read the Feb 11, 2008, press release
Mission Information
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STS-127: A Porch In Space
Although they will be installing a one-of-a- kind porch in space, the astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour's mission STS-127 won’t have time to sit back and relax. Any way you look at it, STS-127 is a full mission.
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The STS-127 Crew
Meet the astronauts of the STS-127 mission aboard space shuttle Endeavour.
Overview
Launch:
6:03 p.m. EDT - July 15, 2009
Landing:
10:48 a.m. EDT - July 31, 2009
Orbiter:
Endeavour
Mission Number:
STS-127
(127th space shuttle flight)
Launch Window:
10 minutes
Launch Pad:
39A
Mission Duration:
15 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes
Landing Site:
KSC
Inclination/Altitude:
51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles
Primary Payload:
29th station flight (2J/A), Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility (JEM EF), Kibo Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Exposed Section (ELM-ES)
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Shuttle Commander Tweets, Takes Questions in Space
STS-127 Commander Mark Polansky invited his Twitter followers to submit questions that he answered from orbit during his mission.
Educator Resources
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STS-127 Educator Resources
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STS-127 Multimedia
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STS-127 Multimedia
View images and videos from the STS-127 shuttle mission to the International Space Station.