Shuttle docks at space station with Japanese lab

By Irene Klotz

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Space shuttle Endeavour linked up with the International Space Station more than 200 miles above Earth on Wednesday on a mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory.

The docking, which took place high above Singapore, capped a two-day voyage that began with Endeavour’s liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early on Tuesday.

“Endeavour arriving,” space station commander Peggy Whitson called out as the shuttle slipped onto a station berthing port.