The space shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews have begun the seventh day of STS-123 since the launch on 11 march 2008. They will continue outfitting the Japanese Logistics Module - Pressurized Section (JLP), transferring supplies and equipment into it from Endeavour, as well as configuring racks inside the module.

The JLP is the first pressurized component of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory and the newest component of the station. Marking the beginning of Japan’s scientific work aboard the station, astronauts entered the new module Friday.

Mission Specialists Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman finished assembling Dextre, the final element of the International Space Station’s Mobile Servicing System, Sunday during the second spacewalk of STS-123. The crews will test the brakes in the robotic system’s arms.

Linnehan and Mission Specialist Robert Behnken will end their day by “camping out” in the station’s Quest Airlock to purge the nitrogen from their bodies before they begin the third spacewalk of the mission at 7:23 p.m. EDT Monday.