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Gregory H. Johnson

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Robert L. Behnken

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Michael Foreman

(Fourth Space Flight) Mission Specialist 3:

Richard M. Linnehan

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Takao Doi, JAXA

(First Space Flight) Mission Specialist 5: Exp. 16

Garrett Reisman

(Second Space Flight) ISS Flight Engineer - Exp 16
Mission Specialist 5:

Leopold Eyharts, ESA

STS-123 was a Space Shuttlemission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-123 was the 1J/AISS assemblymission. 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. The mission duration was 16 days and 14 hours, and it was the first mission to fully utilize the Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System(SSPTS), allowing space station power to augment the shuttle power systems. The mission set a record for a shuttle's longest stay at the ISS.

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The mission marked:
Longest shuttle mission to the ISS to date
153rd NASA crewed spaceflight
122nd Space Shuttle flight since STS-1
97th post-Challenger mission
9th post-Columbia mission
30th Night Launch
16th KSC Shuttle Night Landing, 22nd Shuttle Night Landing Overall
21st launch of Endeavour
2nd mission of Endeavour since Return to Flight

Mission payloads
JEM Kibo ELM-PS in the Space Station Processing Facility
JEM Kibo ELM-PS and DEXTR on ISS after STS-123
Location Cargo Mass
Bay 1–2 Orbiter Docking System
EMU 3003 / EMU 3004 1,800 kilograms (4,000 lb)
~260 kilograms (570 lb)
Bay 3P Shuttle Power
Distribution Unit (SPDU) ~100 kilograms (220 lb)
Bay 3S Canadarm2 Yaw Joint 336 kilograms (741 lb)
Bay 4P MISSE PEC 6a 103 kilograms (227 lb)
Bay 4S Direct Current Switching Unit (DCSU) 363 kilograms (800 lb)
Bay 5P MISSE PEC 6b 103 kilograms (227 lb)
Bay 5S Direct Current Switching Unit (DCSU) 363 kilograms (800 lb)
Bay 6S Standard Interface Panels ?
Bay 7–8 Dextre on Spacelab Pallet 3,485 kilograms (7,683 lb)
Bay 9P ECSH (EVA Cargo Stowage) on APC ~100 kilograms (220 lb)
Bay 10–12 Kibō ELM-PS 8,484 kilograms (18,704 lb)
Bay 11S Standard Interface Panels ?
Bay 13P Lightweight adapter plane for MISSE244 kilograms (538 lb)
Bay 13S USAF RIGEX experiment 315 kilograms (694 lb)
Starboard Sill Orbiter Boom Sensor System ~450 kilograms (990 lb)
Port Sill Canadarm 410 kilograms (900 lb)
Total: 16,916 kilograms (37,293 lb)

Linnehan assisting in the installation of Dextre on the ISS, during the mission's first EVA