Mission

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.

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).

Assembly of Dextre (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator: SPDM) was completed during today's spacewalk.

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.

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).

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.

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).

Today, space shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 00:49 p.m. (10:49 p.m. March 12 CDT).