| STS-117 Atlantis on its way! |
[Jun. 9th, 2007|04:51 pm] |
After months of being delayed while hail damage to the External Tank was repaired, STS-117 Atlantis rocketed into space during twilight (7:38 PM EDT) on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center.
Aboard Atlantis is: Commander Rick Sturckow, Pilot Lee Archambault, and mission specialists Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson, John 'Danny' Olivas, Jim Reilly and Clayton Anderson.
Awaiting their arrival on the International Space Station are Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams.
After a day of Thermal Protection System (TPS) inspection on Saturday, Atlantis is scheduled to dock with the ISS on Sunday. Just after docking, Clayton Anderson will become a member of the Expedition 15 crew and Suni Williams will become a member of the shuttle crew in preparation for her homecoming aboard Atlantis after 6 months in space aboard the ISS.
The main mission of STS-117 Atlantis is to deliver and deploy new truss segments and a new pair of solar arryas (S3/S4 Truss segment). |
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