STS-118

Orbiter: Endeavour (OV-105)
Payload: ISS S5/CMG/ESP-3
Launch: 06:36:36 PM August 8, 2007
Pad: 39A

Flight Duration: 13 days, 18 hours 12 minutes, unless the Shuttle to Station transfer module works, at which time the flight may be extended.

The STS-118 mission will deliver and assemble the starboard S5 truss segment to the International Space Station, as well as External Stowage Platform 3, and a replacement Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission also will carry the Spacehab (Logistics Single Module).

It is the:

150th manned US space launch (Since Mercury)
119th Space Shuttle flight
20th flight of Endeavour
94th Post-Challenger mission
6th Post-Columbia mission

Notes on this mission: Barbara Morgan (MS-4), was the backup for Christa McAuliffe in the original Teacher in Space program. In the 22 years since the Challenger tragedy, Barbara Morgan has become a real astronaut, engaging in the standard Astronout training regimine (McAuliffe was really more or less a passenger on Challenger, receiving only minimal training). Morgan is a legitimate Mission Specialist on the flight. Also, this flight was originally slated to have Lisa Nowak as a mission specialist. Of course, Nowak has been retired from the Astronaut corps and has been replaced.

---Me.