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Japanese Experiment Module (KIBO)
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Flight Day 10 (March 20, 2008)
Astronaut Takao Doi, along with the ISS commander Peggy Whitson and the STS-123 Mission commander Dominic Gorie, participated in the JAXA PAO event which began at 8:10 a.m. and lasted 23 minutes.
Flight Day 9 (March 20, 2008)
Today, Dextre, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM), was finally attached to its home on the Destiny laboratory by the station’s robotic arm, Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS).
Flight Day 8 (March 18, 2008)
Assembly of Dextre (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator: SPDM) was completed during today’s spacewalk.
Flight Day 7 (March 17, 2008)
Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the two arms of Dextre (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM)) set in motion for the first time on-orbit to conduct the break tests on the arms.
Flight Day 6 (March 17, 2008)
Outside of the station, the STS-123 Mission’s second extravehicular activity (EVA#2) was carried out. Two spacewalkers left the quest airlock at 8:49 a.m. to begin the on-orbit assembly of Dextre (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator: SPDM).
Flight Day 5 (March 15, 2008)
Astronauts Takao Doi, Peggy Whitson and Richard Linnehan jumped into the ELM-PS at 10:30 a.m. It was the dramatic and memorable moment that the first Japan-made human-rated space facility became habitable on orbit and one of the first persons to enter was a Japanese astronaut.
Flight Day 4 (March 14, 2008)
Installation of the Japanese Experiment Logistics Module-Pressurized Section (ELM-PS or JLP) on the Harmony (Node 2) was completed at 5:58 p.m. March 14 (3:58 a.m. March 14 CDT).
Flight Day 3 (March 13, 2008)
Today, space shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 00:49 p.m. (10:49 p.m. March 12 CDT).
Flight Day 2 (March 12, 2008)
The crew completed all of their planned tasks, including inspection of Endeavour's heat shield, checkout of the space suits and the tools that will be used during the rendezvous/docking.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off! (FD1) (March 11, 2008)
Today, the Space Shuttle Endeavour roared into a midnight sky of Florida carrying Japan’s first human-rated space facility, Experiment Logistics Module -Pressurized Section (ELM-PS), which is the first Kibo element to be delivered to the ISS, and the ISS’s new robotic arm “Dextre” developed by Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
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