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http://SpaceLaunchInfo.Com
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$2.00
space.launch.info
Volume 8, Issue 3 2009 July
Via Oz Press, PO Box 445, Cape Canaveral FL, 32920
Phone: (321)-LIFTOFF (+1 321 543 8633)
http://SpaceLaunchInfo.Com
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STS-127: Cargo and Experiments
Completes the Japanese Lab
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Endeavour's flight will deliver the final components of the Japan Aero-space Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station. The 16-day mission will include five spacewalks and the installation of two platforms outside of the Japanese module.
One platform is permanent and will serve as a type of porch for experiments that require direct exposure to space. The other is an experiment storage palette that will be detached and returned with the shuttle. During the mission, Kibo's robotic arm will exchange three experiments from the palette to the platform. Future experiments also can be transfer to the platform from the inside using the laboratory's airlock. Endeavour also will deliver a new crew member and bring back another after more than three months aboard the station.
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