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RE: STS-126 mission

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NASA will hold a series of news briefings on Monday, Nov. 3, to preview the upcoming space shuttle Endeavour mission that will outfit the International Space Station for six-person crews.
NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefings from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. News media questions also will be taken from other participating NASA locations.
Endeavour's 15-day flight, designated STS-126, is targeted for launch Nov. 14. The flight will deliver supplies and equipment to prepare the station for six-person crews starting next spring. The mission also includes four spacewalks to service the two Solar Array Rotary Joints that allow the arrays to track the sun.

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NASA has bumped up its target launch date for Endeavour by two days, to Nov. 14 - six weeks from today.
The earlier timetable was made possible after this week's postponement of Atlantis' planned Oct. 14 launch, because of a computer failure on the Hubble Space Telescope.
The launch from Kennedy Space Centre is tentatively set for 7:55 p.m. Nov. 14, with landing expected at 2:15 p.m. Nov. 29.

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The rollout of Space Shuttle Endeavour for the Launch On Need 400 mission should Space Shuttle Atlantis be crippled on STS-125. Both Atlantis and Endeavour are now at the launch complexes at the same time.

Space Shuttle Endeavour rollout for STS-126 / LON-400

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When a U.S. space shuttle rockets to the International Space Station in October, it will carry something very personal belonging to more than 800 students and faculty of Robert Abbott Middle School.
The Waukegan school body will no doubt be watching via satellite when their digitised signatures travel to outer space and back again.

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