STS-123 Mission

Launch Service Provider

United Space Alliance

Vehicle

Space Shuttle

Crew

Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie

Gregory H. Johnson

Garrett Reisman

Michael Foreman

Takao Doi

Robert L. Behnken

Richard M. Linnehan

STS-123 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour. STS-123 was the 1J/A ISS assembly mission. The original launch target date was 14 February 2008 but after the delay of STS-122, the shuttle was launched on 11 March 2008. It was the twenty-fifth shuttle mission to visit the ISS, and delivered the first module of the Japanese laboratory, Japanese Experiment Module (Kibō), and the Canadian Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, (SPDM) Dextre robotics system to the station.