The assembly will travel the 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometers) along the crawlerway in about seven hours, starting from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and ending up at Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

The trip will be accomplished using a crawler-transporter tracked vehicle while being attached to the two-story Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP), the launch platform that will be used to launch Endeavour into orbit about the Earth.

NASA TV will provide live coverage of Endeavour reaching its launch pad beginning at 6:30 a.m. After rollout event, at approximately 10:15 a.m. EDT, NASA will have the Air Force Thunderbirds fly over Endeavour in celebration of NASA’s fiftieth anniversary.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established by the United States government on July 29, 1958, when it passed legistation called the National Aeronautics and Space Act.

The planned sixteen-day mission of the seven-member crew will deliver the first section of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), also called the Kibo (きぼう in Japanese, and Hope in English) laboratory, by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the two-armed robotic system, Special Purpose Dexteroius Manipulator (SPDM), also called Dextre, from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Please read on for additional information on Kibo and Dextre, along with more information on the STS-123 crew.