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1. STS-127 MCC Status Report #32

Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:24:10 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #32

STS-127 Report #32 Friday, July 31, 2009 - 11:30 a m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew landed at 9:48 a m CDT Friday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, capping off a 16-day mission to complete assembly of the International Space Station’s Japanese research laboratory

Endeavour’s main landing gear touched down at 9:48:08 a m , followed by the nose gear at 9:48:21 a m The shuttle’s wheels stopped at 9:49:13 a m , bringing the mission’s elapsed time to 15 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes, 58 seconds Endeavour traveled 6,547,853 statute miles over 248 orbits

Endeavour Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Chris Cassidy, Dave Wolf, Tom Marshburn, Julie Payette of the Canadian Space Agency and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency left the shuttle less than an hour after landing to return to crew quarters

Wakata is returning after serving aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for the past four months Wakata spent 138 days in space, including 133 days aboard the space station Astronaut Tim Kopra launched aboard Endeavour and remains on the station as a member of the Expedition 20 crew

Endeavour's crew completed the construction of the station’s Japanese Kibo science laboratory by joining a new external experiment platform to the primary science enclosure and separate stowage module The platform, called the Japanese Exposed Facility, will serve as a type of porch for experiments that require direct exposure to space Five spacewalks were conducted to install that platform and to swap out six batteries for the station’s oldest set of solar array wings The crew also delivered spare parts needed for the space station's future operations

Endeavour’s crew is scheduled to return home to its Houston base on Saturday, arriving at Ellington Field’s Hangar 990 about 4 p m The public is invited to the ceremony

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