now is a good time to look back at the very successful STS-127 mission. Here’s some great images which tell the story of the mission. Above, astronaut Tim Kopra is pictured in the forward port side area of Endeavour’s cargo bay during the first of five planned spacewalks performed by...
The16-day STS-127 mission will include five spacewalks and the installation of twoplatforms outside of the Japanese Kibo module. One platform is permanent andwill serve as a type of porch for experiments that require direct exposure tospace. The other is an experiment storage pallet that will ...
A milestone for human spaceflight unrelated to the ISS was China's third crewed mission, Shenzhou 7, which was the first to carry three taikonauts and the first to include an EVA, a brief excursion from the orbital module to retrieve experiments....
The water packets were among the ten items Payette chose for her mission's Official Flight Kit (OFK), a duffle bag size container in which she and her crew mates, as well as NASA, flew items for organizations that supported the STS-127 flight and its astronauts. The OFK remained stowed ...