Mission Background
The mission marks:
- 155th NASA manned space flight
- 124th shuttle mission since STS-1
- 99th post-Challenger mission
- 11th post-Columbia mission
- 22nd flight of Endeavour
- 27th shuttle mission to the ISS
- 31st night launch
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