Space shuttle Endeavour's launch on the STS-123 mission lights up the night sky at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Space shuttle Endeavour's launch on the STS-123 mission lights up the night sky over Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. 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