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Space shuttle Endeavour to take off tomorrow

Cape Canaveral, USA - Boeing completed works on Japanese laboratory Kibo

Lift off of space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for tomorrow at 7:17 am EDT (11:17 am GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center of Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will carry STS-127 mission crew to the ISS (International Space Station). The spaceship's payload includes key parts for the Japonese scientific laboratory Kibo. "We're in really good shape to fly", said Mike Moses, chairman of the mission management...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1105729
Rome, Italy, 06/12/2009 09:21
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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