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NASA's STS-127 Mission

Astronauts return from space to sushi overload

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth on Friday, completing a long but successful construction job that boosted the size and power of the international space station. Full story

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NASA's STS-127 Mission information

Commander Mark Polansky and the STS-127 crew will install elements of the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex.

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Astronauts return from space to sushi overload

2009-08-01 06:09:49 GMT SINA.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth on Friday, completing a long but successful construction job that boosted the size and power of the international space station.

Endeavour to land Friday as planned: NASA

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Astronauts inspect heat shield for shuttle Endeavour

2009-07-30 02:25:36 GMT Xinhua English WASHINGTON, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts inspected its heat shield one more time Wednesday with lasers and cameras as they begin to set their sights on a Friday landing, NASA said.

U.S. shuttle Endeavour undocks from Space Station

2009-07-29 00:51:33 GMT Xinhua English WASHINGTON, July 28 (Xinhua) -- After 11 days together in orbit, U.S. space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, with all of the docked mission's objectives complete, NASA said.

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Astronauts return to Earth

2009-08-02 01:50:07 GMT Xinhua English Astronaut Koichi Wakata (R) of the Japanese space agency JAXA, and other crew members take part in a news conference after they returned to Earth aboard the space shuttle Endeavour at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida July 31, 2009.

U.S. shuttle Endeavour lands safely at Kennedy Space Center

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Life inside space shuttle Endeavour

2009-07-18 01:53:03 GMT Xinhua English In this photo released by NASA, the Space Shuttle Endeavour's payload bay, the vertical stabilizer and orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods are featured in this image photographed by a STS-127 crew member from an aft flight deck window July 16, 2009.

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2009-07-16 06:41:52 GMT SINA.com The astronauts headed to the international space station include a Twittering skipper, a classically trained musician who named her son after one of Columbia's fallen astronauts, and a former Navy SEAL who went into Afghanistan two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Kibo Japanese experiment module

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STS-127: A porch in space

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NASA's STS-127 Mission information

2009-06-16 08:37:52 GMT SINA.com Mark L. Polansky will command the shuttle Endeavour for STS-127. Douglas G. Hurley will serve as the pilot. Mission specialists are Christopher J. Cassidy, Thomas H. Marshburn, David A. Wolf and Julie Payette, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut.