Canadian Julie Payette back on earth after second space flight
Julie Payette aboard Endeavour - NASA Photo.
Canadian astronaut Julie Payette has completed her second space flight aboard space shuttle Endeavour.
Payette and six fellow astronauts left behind in orbit a new porch for the International Space Station, two pairs of small research satellites, and a new space station resident.
Endeavour landed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday at 7:49 a.m Pacific Time.
The shuttle brought home Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut
Koichi Wakata, who spent 138 days in space and was a member of three station expedition crews. NASA astronaut Tim Kopra launched aboard Endeavour remained on the station as a resident.
Payette and crew members constructed a porch for the International Space Station. It will be used as a pad for space experiments.
Payette, 46, became the first Canadian to board the space station durng a 9-day space flight between May 27 to June 6, 1999. During that trip, she travelled six million kilometres in space.
The STS-127 mission crew members were Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Dave Wolf, Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Tim Kopra and Payette.
- Vancouverite News Service – VNS©
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on Jul 31 2009. Filed under Canada.
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