Watch Space Shuttle launch live
Network News Release …
HDNet (channel 79 on Direct TV, 362 on Dish Network) will broadcast live high-definition coverage of Saturday’s launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Coverage begins at 6 a.m. Saturday. Greg Dobbs, HDNet World Report correspondent, will be joined on the broadcast by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who has flown on two prior Space Shuttle missions.
Commander Mark Polansky and his six crewmates are scheduled to lift off at 6:17 a.m. from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After standing by in launch readiness to cover for Shuttle Atlantis in case of emergency, the astronauts will launch in Endeavour for a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.
When the seven Endeavour astronauts join the six-person crew on the Space Station, it will be a new record of 13 people in space at the same time.
Endeavour’s Mission STS-127 is the 32nd flight dedicated to station construction and the final of a series of three flights dedicated to the assembly of the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex. The STS-127 payload is the Japanese “Exposed Facility,” which is a shelf that will be attached to the exterior of the Station to expose experimental materials to the harsh environments of space.
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