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NORAD ID: 35633
Int'l Code: 2009-038A
Launch date: July 15, 2009
Source: United States (US)
Decay date: 2009-07-31
Comments: STS-127 (ISS assembly flight 2J/A) is the current 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 is 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). The STS-127 crew members are Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Dave Wolf, Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Tim Kopra and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette. Kopra will join the space station crew and replace Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata. Wakata will return to Earth on Endeavour to conclude a three-month stay at the station.
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Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for STS 127
