HDNet to Broadcast Live High Definition Coverage of the Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour

HDNet to Broadcast Live High Definition Coverage of the Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour

HDNet to present live launch coverage beginning Friday, November 14, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. ET

DALLAS, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: HDNet to broadcast LIVE HD coverage of the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour for a rendezvous with the International Space Station, the twenty-seventh such meeting.

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The mission of STS-126 is to deliver equipment to the International Space Station that will enable larger crews to reside aboard the complex. Astronaut Christopher J. Ferguson commands the mission. Endeavour will carry a reusable logistics module (Leonardo) that will hold supplies and equipment, including additional crew quarters, additional exercise equipment, equipment for the regenerative life support system and spare hardware. With this addition, up to six astronauts (double the current crew size) can reside for long-duration missions. There are also four space-walks planned for the mission and Endeavour is carrying equipment and supplies for these ventures.

HDNet's coverage will be hosted by HDNet World Report Correspondent Greg Dobbs.

WHEN: Friday, November 14, 7:30 p.m. ET on HDNet.

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HDNet is your exclusive, high definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming, including television's only HD news feature programs "HDNet World Report," the Emmy Award winning "Dan Rather Reports," featuring legendary journalist Dan Rather and "NASA on HDNet" (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010). HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring Major League Soccer, the NASCAR Camping World Series, NASCAR Sprint Cup re-broadcasts, and premiere Mixed Martial Arts from "HDNet Fights;" behind-the-scenes sports news with "Inside MMA;" groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series featuring leading artists and bands including Coldplay, Gwen Stefani, John Mayer and more; and entertaining and irreverent lifestyle programming including "Deadline!," "Art Mann Presents," and "Get Out!" HDNet is also the exclusive high definition home to critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as the Emmy Award winning "Arrested Development," "The Black Donnellys," "Dead Like Me," "Smallville" and the hit series "Torchwood."

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Only HDNet Movies' exclusive Sneak Previews bring feature films to viewers before they premiere in theaters! Some of the HDNet Movies Sneak Previews have included the Academy Award nominated "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," Toronto Film Festival nominee "The War Within," and "Bubble," the first of six movies by acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and produced exclusively for HDNet Films. Other featured films include "Cashback," written and produced by Sean Ellis, "Broken English," from Zoe Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo and Griffin Dunne, the critically acclaimed "Redacted" directed by Brian De Palma, "Flawless," starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore, "Quid Pro Quo," starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga, "Finding Amanda," starring Matthew Broderick and Brittany Snow, "Red," starring Brian Cox and most recently "Humboldt County," starring Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich and Frances Conroy. Upcoming Sneak Previews include "Special," starring Michael Rapaport, "Great Buck Howard," starring Colin Hanks, John Malkovich and Tom Hanks, and "Harlem Aria," starring Damon Wayans.

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