STS-123
Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105
United Space Alliance
Rocket Launch Video
Crew
Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie
- Birthday: 05/02/1957
- Role: Commander
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 06/02/1998
- Last Flight: 03/11/2008
Dominic Lee Pudwill Gorie is a retired United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four space shuttle m...
Gregory H. Johnson
- Birthday: 05/12/1962
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 03/11/2008
- Last Flight: 05/16/2011
Gregory Harold "Box" Johnson is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired colonel in the United States Air Force. John...
Garrett Reisman
- Birthday: 02/10/1968
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 03/11/2008
- Last Flight: 05/14/2010
Garrett Erin Reisman is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joi...
Michael Foreman
- Birthday: 03/29/1957
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 03/11/2008
- Last Flight: 11/16/2009
Michael James Foreman is a retired U.S. Navy pilot and a NASA astronaut. While with NASA, Foreman was part of a mission that ...
Takao Doi
- Birthday: 09/18/1954
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: Japan
- First Flight: 11/19/1997
- Last Flight: 03/11/2008
Takao Doi (土井 隆雄 Doi Takao, born September 18, 1954) is a Japanese astronaut and veteran of two NASA space shuttle mi...
Robert L. Behnken
- Birthday: 07/28/1970
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 03/11/2008
- Last Flight: 05/30/2020
Robert Louis "Bob" Behnken is a United States Air Force officer, retired NASA astronaut and former Chief of the Ast...
Richard M. Linnehan
- Birthday: 09/19/1957
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 06/20/1996
- Last Flight: 03/11/2008
Richard Michael Linnehan is an American veterinarian and a former NASA astronaut.
Mission
STS-123
- Type: Human Exploration
- Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
- Launch Cost: $450,000,000
STS-123 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-123 was the 1J/A ISS assembly mission. The original launch target date was 14 February 2008 but after the delay of STS-122, the shuttle was launched on 11 March 2008. It was the twenty-fifth shuttle mission to visit the ISS, and delivered the first module of the Japanese laboratory, Japanese Experiment Module (KibÅ), and the Canadian Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, (SPDM) Dextre robotics system to the station.
Location
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Find the best place to watch the launch from Florida
Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 199 rockets, including 198 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 257 rocket launches.
The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).
Rocket
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.
Agency
United Space Alliance
United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
