Lighting up the night sky space shuttle Endeavour blazes into the darkness on the STS-123 mission.

Lighting up the night sky, as well as the water nearby, space shuttle Endeavour blazes into the darkness on the STS-123 mission. Liftoff was on time at 2:28 a.m. EDT. Endeavour's crew will make a record-breaking 16-day mission to the International Space Station and deliver the first section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's two-armed robotic system, Dextre. Photo credit: NASA/Sandra Joseph, Tony Gray, Robert Murray