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STS-123 landing

Shuttle Endeavour returned from space with a night landing March 26 at Kennedy Space Center.

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Day 16 highlights

Video highlights from Endeavour's final full day in space for STS-123.

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Day 15 highlights

Flight Day 15 was undocking day as Endeavour departed the station to begin the journey toward home.

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Day 14 highlights

Easter Sunday in space on Flight Day 14 included a few hours of rest and the joint crew news conference.

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Day 13 highlights

On Flight Day 13, the mission's final spacewalk attached the shuttle's heat shield inspection boom to the station.

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Day 12 highlights

Inspections of Endeavour's wings and nose for space debris hits were conducted on Flight Day 12.

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Day 11 highlights

Spacewalkers on Flight Day 11 tested a method for repairing damaged shuttle heat shield tiles in space.

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Day 10 highlights

Video highlights from Flight Day 10 as the astronauts enjoyed a mid-mission light-duty day.

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STS-123 day 9 highlights

Flight Day 9 saw Dextre moved to the Destiny lab, stowing the assembly pallet and a group dinner in the Zvezda module.

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STS-123 day 8 highlights

Finishing assembly of Dextre and delivering spare parts to the station occurred during the spacewalk on Flight Day 8.

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STS-123 day 7 highlights

The space station's handyman robot Dextre flexed its arms for the first time during Flight Day 7.

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STS-123 day 6 highlights

Flight Day 6 was dedicated to the second spacewalk and continued assembly of the Dextre robot.

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STS-123 day 5 highlights

The station and shuttle crews opened up and entered Japan's new Kibo logistics module during Flight Day 5.

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STS-123 day 4 highlights

Highlights of the Kibo logistics module's attachment to the station and the first spacewalk to begin Dextre assembly.

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STS-123 day 3 highlights

This movie shows the highlights from Flight Day 3 as Endeavour docked to the space station.

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STS-123 day 2 highlights

Flight Day 2 of Endeavour's mission focused on heat shield inspections. This movie shows the day's highlights.

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STS-123 day 1 highlights

The highlights from shuttle Endeavour's launch day are packaged into this movie.

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Launching on the shuttle

Video cameras on the boosters and tank, plus a cockpit camera show what the shuttle and its astronauts experience during the trek to space.

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STS-120: In review

The STS-120 crew narrates highlights from its mission that delivered the station's Harmony module and moved the P6 power truss.

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STS-123: TCDT

The STS-123 astronauts complete their countdown dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center.

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STS-123: To the pad

Endeavour travels to pad 39A in the overnight hours of Feb. 18 in preparation for liftoff on STS-123.

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Introduction to ATV

Preview the maiden voyage of European's first Automated Transfer Vehicle, named Jules Verne. The craft will deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

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Shuttle Endeavour returns from space
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: March 26, 2008;
Updated after post-landing news conference

Running one orbit late because of troublesome low clouds, the shuttle Endeavour plunged back to Earth Wednesday, dropping out of the night for a picture-perfect landing at the Kennedy Space Center to close out a marathon 16-day space station assembly mission. Joining the shuttle astronauts for the trip back to Earth was European Space Agency astronaut Leopold Eyharts, launched to the station in February and returning after 48 days in space.

"I can't imagine the mission could have gone any better," said NASA Administrator Mike Griffin. "They made it look easy."


Credit: Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now
 
Reflecting on the addition of the first of two Japanese modules and the assembly of a Canadian maintenance robot during Endeavour's five-spacewalk mission, Griffin said "if you look around, there really isn't, any more, a U.S. human spaceflight program or a Russian human spaceflight program. There is a world human spaceflight program, centered around the building and then later utilization of the international space station. And we hope when we get that under our belt, this partnership will return to the moon and later go on to Mars."

Flying upside down and backward over the Indian Ocean, commander Dominic Gorie and pilot Gregory Johnson fired Endeavour's twin braking rockets for two minutes and 48 seconds starting at 7:33:14 p.m., slowing the ship by about 206 mph and dropping the far side of the shuttle's orbit deep into the atmosphere.

After a half-hour free fall, Endeavour plunged back into the discernible atmosphere at 8:07 p.m. at an altitude of 76 miles above the south Pacific Ocean. Minutes later, the shuttle's heat shield was subjected to 3,000-degree temperatures as the spaceplane decelerated from its orbital velocity of 5 miles per second.

Crossing high above Central America's Yucatan Peninsula, Endeavour's flight computers guided the shuttle across the Gulf of Mexico and then over the west coast of Florida just south of Tampa, dropping through 84,000 feet at 1,700 mph seven minutes before touchdown.

Three minutes later, at an altitude of about 50,700 feet, Endeavour's speed dropped below Mach 1 and a double sonic boom rumbled across the space center. Gorie took over manual control a few seconds later and after letting Gregory get a few moments of "stick time, guided the shuttle through a sweeping 255-degree left overhead turn to line up on runway 15.

As Gorie pulled the shuttle's nose up just before touchdown, Johnson lowered Endeavour's landing gear and the orbiter settled to a tire-smoking touchdown at 8:39:08 p.m. as jets of flame from the exhaust ports of the ship's three hydraulic power units flared in the night.

"Houston, Endeavour. Wheels stopped," Gorie radioed as the shuttle rolled to a stop.

"Welcome home, Endeavour," astronaut James Dutton called from mission control. "Congrats to the entire crew, to JAXA and CSA (the Japanese and Canadian space agencies), on a very successful mission."

"Thanks, Jim," Gorie replied. "It was a super rewarding mission, exciting from the start to the ending and we just thank you for all your help. Looking forward to seeing you guys soon."

It was the 16th night landing at KSC and the 22nd in shuttle history. Mission duration was 15 days 18 hours 10 minutes and 54 seconds, covering 6.6 million miles and 249 complete orbits since blastoff March 11 from nearby launch complex 39A.

Observers were startled by the hydraulic power units' exhaust jetting from vents on either side of Endeavour's vertical tail fin. The exhaust is produced by the orbiter's three auxiliary power units, which provide the muscle needed to move the ship's wing flaps, speed brake, landing gear brakes and nose wheel steering. The exhaust appeared normal in infrared views, but was more pronounced than usual in NASA's visible-light camera. NASA spokesman Kyle Herring in mission control said the APUs were operating normally.

Gorie, Johnson and their shuttle crewmates - flight engineer Michael Foreman, Richard Linnehan, Robert Behnken and Japanese astronaut Takao Doi - doffed their pressure suits and joined technicians and NASA managers on the runway about an hour after landing for a traditional walk-around inspection.

Eyharts made the flight back to Earth resting on his back in a special recumbent seat on Endeavour's lower deck. As with all returning long-duration space station astronauts, a team of flight surgeons was standing by to monitor Eyharts as he began the long process of readjusting to Earth's gravity. The French air force general was replaced aboard the station by NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, who hitched a ride the lab complex aboard Endeavour.

Eyharts and his shuttle crewmates are expected to fly back to the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday.

Endeavour's 16-day mission was the longest yet for a space station assembly flight and the five spacewalks carried out by Linnehan, Behnken, Foreman and Reisman set another one-flight station assembly record of 33 hours and 28 minutes.

Endeavour took off March 11 and docked with the space station two days later. The day after that, Doi, operating the shuttle's robot arm, moved a Japanese storage module into position for attachment to the station while Linnehan and Reisman staged the mission's initial spacewalk.

During the next spacewalk, Linnehan and Behnken then began assembly of the Canadian Space Agency's special purpose dexterous manipulator, a maintenance robot known as Dextre. Attached to the end of the station's robot arm, Dextre can be used to replace components on the station that might otherwise require a spacewalk.

Along with mounting the Japanese module and building Dextre, the astronauts also transferred critical spare parts to the station and mounted Endeavour's heat shield inspection boom on the lab for use by the next shuttle crew. That shuttle, Discovery, is carrying Japan's huge Kibo lab module and does not have enough room for the inspection boom as well.

Liftoff had been scheduled for May 25 - minutes before NASA's Phoenix lander is scheduled to touch down on Mars - but Griffin confirmed Wednesday that launch will slip a few days because of late delivery of the shuttle's external fuel tank.

"You can go watch the Phoenix landing (at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.)," Griffin told a reporter. "We're working on the exact date for STS-124." He said launch would take place within a few days of May 25, "but we know you'll be deconflicted enough that you can manage with a round-trip ticket. Because I'll tell you this, the landing day on Mars is fixed! It ain't moving."

NASA is still assessing its schedule for subsequent shuttle flights. Eleven more flights are planned before the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010, with four flights on tap this year, four in 2009 and three in 2010.

Along with Discovery's upcoming station flight, the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for launch Aug. 28 on a final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour returns to orbit in October for a space station resupply mission and Discovery closes out the year in December with a flight to deliver a final set of solar arrays to the international lab.

But external tank production problems at Lockheed Martin's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans threaten delays for downstream flights. The tank needed by Discovery for the next mission reached the Kennedy Space Center behind schedule Wednesday and while that flight remains roughly on track, the Hubble mission could slip into October when all is said and done, triggering domino-like slips for subsequent flights.

NASA managers have not yet made any official changes. But Bill Gerstenmaier, chief of space operations for NASA, said Wednesday production of new tanks based on post-Columbia design modifications involves numerous changes and based on actual experience, it appears delays are likely.

"The tanks we're getting now, you can think of them as clean-build tanks, whereas before, the tanks we had were built before the Katrina hurricane and we were repairing and making modifications to those tanks," Gerstenmaier said. "So we're gaining some experience and seeing how long it takes to put those tanks together, how to fabricate them.

"And then HST is a little unique because we need to have two tanks down here ready to go support that mission, the tank for the flight itself and the tank for the contingency (rescue) flight. So we're off evaluating now what that production schedule looks like. We really don't have a good handle on that schedule yet. Once we understand a little bit better where that fits, we'll then announce where those flights are going, if they're going to move.

"But right now, it's a little early to look at that," Gerstenmaier said. "But we understand the work is a little bit different than we had before and we're going to have to have a different production schedule. So things will slip, probably, a little bit for those tanks."

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VIDEO: ENDEAVOUR'S LANDING AS SEEN LIVE PLAY
VIDEO: LANDING REPLAY: CAMERA LOOKING OUT PILOT'S WINDOW PLAY
VIDEO: LANDING REPLAY: OUR FOOTAGE FROM THE RUNWAY PLAY
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VIDEO: LANDING REPLAY: RUNWAY MID-FIELD PLAY
VIDEO: LANDING REPLAY: RUNWAY WEST PLAY
VIDEO: LANDING REPLAY: RUNWAY EAST PLAY
VIDEO: CREW EMERGES FOR POST-LANDING GREETINGS PLAY
VIDEO: NASA AND JAXA POST-LANDING NEWS CONFERENCE PLAY
VIDEO: BEHIND THE SCENES W/ENTRY TEAM IN MISSION CONTROL PLAY

VIDEO: CREW GIVEN THE "GO" FOR DEORBIT BURN PLAY
VIDEO: FIRST LANDING OPPORTUNITY CANCELLED PLAY
VIDEO: WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE PLANE TAKES OFF PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 16 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: TUESDAY NIGHT'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: MEDIA INTERVIEWS WITH CREW TUESDAY EVENING PLAY
VIDEO: ASTRONAUT LEOPOLD EYHARTS' FRENCH MEDIA EVENT PLAY
VIDEO: CREW TOLD OF WINDOW AND WING IMPACT ANALYSIS PLAY
VIDEO: ASTRONAUTS PLAY WITH JELLYBEANS ON FLIGHT DECK PLAY
VIDEO: PRE-ENTRY TEST OF AEROSURFACES AND THRUSTERS PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 15 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: STATION'S VIEW OF SHUTTLE WATER DUMP PLAY
VIDEO: UNDOCKING REPLAY FROM STATION CAMERA PLAY
VIDEO: UNDOCKING REPLAY FROM SHUTTLE CAMERAS PLAY
VIDEO: MONDAY NIGHT'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR UNDOCKS FROM THE STATION PLAY
VIDEO: SOLAR ARRAY LATCHING PROBLEM DELAYS UNDOCKING PLAY
VIDEO: HATCH CLOSED BETWEEN DOCKING PORT AND HARMONY PLAY
VIDEO: SHUTTLE AND STATION CREWS SAY THEIR FAREWELLS PLAY
VIDEO: MONDAY'S MISSION MANAGEMENT TEAM UPDATE PLAY
VIDEO: NARRATED ANIMATION OF UNDOCKING AND FLYAROUND PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 14 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: ARIZONA AND COLORADO SEEN FROM SPACE AT NIGHT PLAY
VIDEO: NEW YORK CITY AND BOSTON SEEN FROM SPACE AT NIGHT PLAY
VIDEO: BEAUTIFUL MOONSET SEEN FROM THE STATION PLAY
VIDEO: SUNDAY NIGHT'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: JOINT SHUTTLE AND STATION CREW NEWS CONFERENCE PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 13 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: SUNDAY MORNING'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: CONCLUSION OF MISSION'S FINAL SPACEWALK PLAY
VIDEO: HELMET-CAM SURVEY OF DEPLOYED EXPERIMENTS PLAY
VIDEO: SECOND EXPERIMENT PACKAGE RETRIEVED FROM SHUTTLE PLAY
VIDEO: MATERIALS EXPOSURE EXPERIMENT INSTALLED ON ISS PLAY
VIDEO: FURTHER EXAMINATION OF STATION'S ROTARY JOINT PLAY
VIDEO: PROTECTIVE COVER PLACED OVER BOOM SENSOR PACKAGE PLAY
VIDEO: HEAT SHIELD INSPECTION BOOM MOUNTED ON THE STATION PLAY
VIDEO: BOOM MOVED FOR SPACEWALKERS TO MANUALLY STOW PLAY
VIDEO: GOOD CONNECTION CONFIRMED FOR BOOM UMBILICAL PLAY
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VIDEO: INSPECTION BOOM HANDED OFF BETWEEN ROBOT ARM PLAY
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VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 12 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: FRIDAY NIGHT'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: SCIENCE GLOVEBOX FACILITY MOVED INTO COLUMBUS LAB PLAY
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VIDEO: NARRATED ANIMATION OF LATE INSPECTION PROCESS PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 11 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: FRIDAY MORNING'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: BEHNKEN GIVES ANOTHER SHOT AT STUCK CONNECTOR PLAY
VIDEO: TILE SAMPLES AND DISPENSER STOWED IN PAYLOAD BAY PLAY
VIDEO: CLOSEUP VIEW OF THE 'REPAIRED' SHUTTLE TILES PLAY
VIDEO: SPACE SHUTTLE TILE REPAIR DEMONSTRATION - PART 2 PLAY
VIDEO: SPACE SHUTTLE TILE REPAIR DEMONSTRATION - PART 1 PLAY
VIDEO: TILE REPAIR DRY RUN PRACTICE WITH THE DISPENSER PLAY
VIDEO: SPACEWALKERS SET UP WORKSITE FOR TILE REPAIR TEST PLAY
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VIDEO: ASTRONAUTS EGRESS AIRLOCK FOR EVA NO. 4 PLAY
VIDEO: TILE REPAIR DEMONSTRATION PREVIEW PLAY
VIDEO: NARRATED PREVIEW OF SPACEWALK NO. 4 PLAY
VIDEO: NARRATED ANIMATION OF FUTURE DEXTRE WORK PLAY
VIDEO: NARRATED ANIMATION OF JAPAN'S SECTION OF ISS PLAY

VIDEO: LAUNCH VIDEO FROM COCKPIT CAMERA W/INTERCOM PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 10 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: WEDNESDAY'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: CREW MEDIA INTERVIEWS WEDNESDAY NIGHT PLAY
VIDEO: JAPANESE VIP CALL TO STATION PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 9 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: TUESDAY NIGHT'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH CARRIER PALLET RETURNED TO SHUTTLE PLAY
VIDEO: DEXTRE ROBOT ATTACHED TO DESTINY LAB MODULE PLAY
VIDEO: NARRATED ANIMATION OF DEXTRE'S RELOCATION PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 8 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
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VIDEO: CREW MEDIA INTERVIEWS SUNDAY NIGHT PLAY
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VIDEO: ENDEAVOUR PERFORMS THE 360-DEGREE BACKFLIP PLAY
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VIDEO: NARRATED ANIMATION OF PREVIEWING THE DOCKING PLAY
VIDEO: UPDATE FROM MISSION MANAGEMENT TEAM PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 2 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: WEDNESDAY'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: ANIMATION OF THE HEAT SHIELD INSPECTIONS PLAY
VIDEO: NARRATED TOUR OF ENDEAVOUR'S PAYLOAD BAY PLAY

VIDEO: THE FLIGHT DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: INSIDE MISSION CONTROL DURING LAUNCH PLAY
VIDEO: THE FULL LAUNCH EXPERIENCE PLAY
VIDEO: SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR BLASTS OFF! PLAY
VIDEO: THE POST-LAUNCH NEWS CONFERENCE PLAY
VIDEO: HIGHLIGHTS FROM ENDEAVOUR'S LAUNCH CAMPAIGN PLAY
VIDEO: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PAYLOADS' LAUNCH CAMPAIGN PLAY

VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: VAB ROOF PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: PAD FRONT PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: PRESS SITE PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: WEST TOWER PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: PAD PERIMETER PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: UCS-23 WIDESCREEN PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: CAMERA 009 PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: CAMERA 049 PLAY
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VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: CAMERA 071 PLAY
VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: CAMERA CS-1 PLAY
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VIDEO: LAUNCH REPLAY: CAMERA CS-6 PLAY

VIDEO: FINAL PRE-LAUNCH POLLS GIVE "GO" FOR LIFTOFF PLAY
VIDEO: ENDEAVOUR'S CREW MODULE CLOSED FOR FLIGHT PLAY
VIDEO: ASTRONAUT DOI CLIMBS INTO HIS SEAT PLAY
VIDEO: PILOT JOHNSON CLIMBS INTO HIS SEAT PLAY
VIDEO: ASTRONAUT REISMAN CLIMBS INTO HIS SEAT PLAY
VIDEO: COMMANDER GORIE CLIMBS INTO HIS SEAT PLAY
VIDEO: ASTRONAUTS ARRIVE AT LAUNCH PAD 39A PLAY
VIDEO: CREW DEPARTS QUARTERS FOR LAUNCH PAD PLAY
VIDEO: ASTRONAUTS DON SPACESUITS FOR LAUNCH PLAY
VIDEO: TIME-LAPSE MOVIE OF SUNSET OVER PAD 39A PLAY
VIDEO: MORNING PREPARATIONS AT LAUNCH PAD 39A PLAY
VIDEO: PAD GANTRY RETRACTED FOR LAUNCH PLAY

VIDEO: OVERVIEW BRIEFING ON CANADA'S DEXTRE ROBOT PLAY
VIDEO: OVERVIEW BRIEFING ON JAPAN'S KIBO FACILITIES PLAY
VIDEO: SUNDAY'S COUNTDOWN STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: SATURDAY'S COUNTDOWN STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: CREW ARRIVES AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FOR LAUNCH PLAY
VIDEO: FRIDAY'S COUNTDOWN STATUS AND WEATHER BRIEFING PLAY

VIDEO: STS-123 ASTRONAUT BIOGRAPHY MOVIE PLAY
VIDEO: NARRATED SHORT FILM PREVIEW ENDEAVOUR'S FLIGHT PLAY

VIDEO: STS-123 MISSION OVERVIEW BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: BRIEFING ON THE SPACEWALKS PLAY
VIDEO: CREW'S PRE-FLIGHT BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: SHUTTLE AND ISS PROGRAM UPDATE PLAY

VIDEO: CREW INTERVIEW: COMMANDER DOM GORIE PLAY
VIDEO: CREW INTERVIEW: PILOT GREG JOHNSON PLAY
VIDEO: CREW INTERVIEW: MS1 BOB BEHNKEN PLAY
VIDEO: CREW INTERVIEW: MS2 MIKE FOREMAN PLAY
VIDEO: CREW INTERVIEW: MS3 TAKAO DOI PLAY
VIDEO: CREW INTERVIEW: MS4 RICK LINNEHAN PLAY

VIDEO: FLIGHT READINESS REVIEW NEWS BRIEFING PLAY
VIDEO: TCDT TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS PLAY
VIDEO: PRESS CHAT WITH CREW AT LAUNCH PAD PLAY
VIDEO: CREW ARRIVES AT KSC FOR PRACTICE COUNT PLAY
VIDEO: ENDEAVOUR ARRIVES AT PAD 39A PLAY | XL SIZE
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