'Early Sunrise' Endeavour Lifts off into the Night

Brilliantly lighting up the dark sky, space shuttle Endeavour roared off the launch pad carrying the STS-123 crew, a module of Japan's Kibo laboratory and a Canadian robotic system to begin the 25th mission to the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Dominic Gorie commands a crew of six, including Pilot Gregory H. Johnson and Mission Specialists Rick Linnehan, Robert L. Behnken, Mike Foreman, Garrett Reisman and Japanese astronaut Takao Doi. Johnson, Behnken and Foreman will be making their first spaceflight.

Follow the STS-123 mission at www.nasa.gov!

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[perqa]

I just love a good liftoff. Damn, I really wish I could somehow be a part of this :( The best of luck to you all.

[thetransitstop]

Very cool launch! Congrats Endeavor on a successful launch! Hope to see you home safe and sound!

[salemcripple]

104% rated thrust? That doesn't sound good. Doesn't that mean it is putting out more thrust than it was designed to handle, and could fail because of it?

[Rusbalt]

Looks like no UFO around? Good luck

[LOLcheeky]

Watched Endeavour pass here in Ireland 18mins after launch. God Speed.

[tuktukman]

stupid nasa

[videogamer8000]

i went to that launch. it was amazing. I had a scanner on me so i was able to listen to everything that you heard on this video plus longer. To bad it was so cloudy so 15 seconds after take off you couldn't see anything, but all you could see was a glow for a little bit

[nysef816]

beautiful video. it stuff like this that keeps me optimistic about humanity.

[tomanyasses]

go go go wait you forgot your credit card space aliens like earth people to buy there rubber statues of them, just kidding ,

serious its amazing how far we come and i have no idea if there are space aliens watching

[gizakiss]

superb technology.

[lovcrazy4u]

sweet

[aloa]

Man...! there has to be tons of vibration and shaking, listen to Capitan's voice at 1:30.everything seems to be smooth though in videos :-P

good luck Endeavour