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STS-127

successSpace Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-127

STS-127 (ISS assembly flight 2J/A) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It was 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 the ISS on this mission in July 2009, 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.

Overview

Date / time
July 15, 2009 at 10:03 PM UTC
Outcome
success
Launch site
Launch Complex 39A
Mission
STS-127
Mission type
Human Exploration
Orbit achieved
Low Earth Orbit
Launch vehicle
Space Shuttle →
Launch provider
United Space Alliance →

Payloads deployed · 4

ANDE CASTOR SPHERE
LEO
ANDE POLLUX SPHERE
LEO
DRAGONSAT
LEO
STS 127
LEO