HDNet to Feature Live Coverage of the Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour

HDNet to Feature Live Coverage of the Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour

Network's high definition coverage of STS-127 begins Saturday, July 11, at 7:00 p.m. ET

DALLAS, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: HDNet will air live coverage of the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour - mission STS-127 to the International Space Station. HDNet Correspondent Greg Dobbs will host HDNet's coverage and will be joined by veteran NASA astronaut Cady Coleman. HDNet's LIVE coverage from the Kennedy Space Center begins at 7:00 p.m. ET.

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Commander Mark Polansky and his six crewmates are scheduled to lift-off at 7:39 p.m. ET from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 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 the first time the Space Station has been fully crewed - a new record of 13 people in space at the same time. Endeavour will also carry history's 500th person into space.

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.

WHEN: Coverage begins Saturday, July 11, at 7:00 p.m. ET with the launch scheduled for 7:39 p.m. ET.

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