Endeavour's first landing opportunity was waved off this afternoon. The second opportunity will result in a night landing at KSC. NASA reports:

STS-123 Landing Delayed

Image above: Space shuttle Endeavour's second landing opportunity at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., occurs on orbit 249. Credit: NASA

Flight controllers decided to pass on Endeavour’s first landing opportunity today. The next opportunity is at 8:39 p.m. EDT.

STS-123 arrived at the station March 12, delivering the Japanese Logistics Module - Pressurized Section, the first pressurized component of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory, to the station. The crew of Endeavour also delivered the final element of the station’s Mobile Servicing System, the Canadian-built Dextre, also known as the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator.

In addition the STS-123 astronauts delivered Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Garrett Reisman, who replaced Léopold Eyharts, a European Space Agency astronaut, on the station.

STS-123 is the 122nd shuttle mission and 25th station assembly mission.

Media Resources
› STS-123 Landing Groundtracks
› STS-123 Execute Packages
› STS-123 TV Schedule
› STS-123 Press Kit (4.4 Mb PDF)
› STS-123 Fact Sheet (433 Kb PDF)

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Joint Crew News Conference video here. Discussion here. Status Report #32 here. NASA Landing Blog here. Check the links at right for play-by-play and NASA TV.