NASA's first nighttime launch since 2006 sent space shuttle
Endeavour on a record-breaking 16-day space station mission on 2:28 a.m. EDT, March 11 from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral. The crew of the STS-123 mission will deliver the first section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's
Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's two-armed robotic system,
Dextre.