en.wikipedia.org Mark L. Polansky........Commander Douglas G. Hurley.......Pilot Christopher J. Cassidy....Mission Specialist 1 Julie Payette, CSA....Mission Specialist 2 Thomas H. Marshburn...Mission Specialist 3 David Wolf...Mission Specialist 4 Timothy Kopra...Mission Specialist 5 -------------------------------------------------- Mission name STS-127 Space shuttle Endeavour Spacecraft mass TBD Launch pad LC-39A Launch date July 15, 2009, 6:03:10 pm EDT (22:03 UTC) Landing July 31, 2009, 10:48 am EDT (14:48 UTC) Mission duration 15 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes, 58 seconds Number of orbits 248 Orbital period 94 minutes Orbital altitude 356 km (221 statute miles) Orbital inclination 51.6 degrees Distance traveled 10537748 km (6547853 mi) ---------------------------------------------------------- STS-127 (ISS assembly flight 2J/A) is the most recent space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It is the twenty-third flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The primary purpose of the STS-127 mission was to deliver and install the final two components of the Japanese Experiment Module: the Exposed Facility (JEM EF), and the Exposed Section of the Experiment Logistics Module (ELM-ES). When Endeavour docked with ISS, it set a record for the most humans in space at the same time in the same vehicle, the first time thirteen people have been at the station at the same time. It also tied the record of thirteen people in space at any one time. The first launch attempt ...
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