STS-127: Mission

Mission STS-127 will attach a platform to the outside of the space station's Japanese Laboratory Kibo. Science experiments will take place on this platform, allowing them to remain exposed to the harsh environment of space. The astronaut crew will also deliver critical supplies to the Station, as well as experiments that will be subsequently berthed to the laboratory platform. Payette will operate three robotic arms during this robotics-intense mission, the Shuttle's Canadarm, the Station's Canadarm2 and a Japanese arm on Kibo. Canadian robotic technology will be used almost every day of this assembly mission.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• shuttle
• Endeavour
• STS-127
• space
• station
• Kibo
• exposed
• facility