At last NASA's Shuttle Endeavour had launched 15th July evening successfully from Kennedy Space Center in Florida

 

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Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew had launched

-->15^th July at 6:03 p.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will deliver the last segment to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and a new crew member to the International Space Station.

This Endeavour's 16-day mission includes five spacewalks and the installation of two platforms exterior to the Japanese module. One platform will be permanent and allow experiments to be directly exposed to space where as the other one is an experiment storage pallet that will be detached and returned with the shuttle. During the assignment, Kibo's robotic arm will transfer three experiments from the pallet to the exposed platform. Future more experiments can also be moved to the platform from inside the station using the laboratory's airlock.

For live telecast please visit NASA Television and NASA's Web coverage of STS-127 includes existing mission information, interactive features, news conference images, graphics and live videos.